This summer, we offer you the return of a topic, Nostalgeek. And we decided to dwell on a specific year: 2001. Distant and close both the year 2001 is interesting to analyze, to show developments in the high-tech in 10 years. Every day, during the holidays, we will offer you a retrospective of a week of 2001, with the news of the day and a small analysis on what there is in 2011.
In February 2001, what happens?
In 2001, if the "dual core" are still as sweet dreams in the general public, it is possible to work with two processors. And AMD will propose a solution of this type with the 760MP chipset, which allows two Athlon Socket A parallel. And in the world of memory, IBM shows its MRAM prototypes, a memory intended to replace the DRAM and flash.
In 2011, the "bi - CPU" public platforms are rare, current processors for more SMP without server versions, but processors were in the vast majority of cases at least two cores. In the world of memory, the MRAM is a sweet dream and flash and DRAM are always very used. The next Holy Grail, this is the PRAM, which combines... benefits of DRAM and flash.
In the small world of the GPU, GeForce 2 MX 64 MB announcements are multiplying and the first rumours on the NV20 spread: NVIDIA should call the GeForce 3 map. In laptops, ATi finally enters the dance of the "GPU" with a Radeon Mobility. The map consumes little (0.5 W in some cases) but misunderstands the T & L engine. The maximum memory is 16 MB and DirectX 7 is part.
In 2011, entry-level cards were sometimes 2 GB of RAM and the information on the next NVIDIA chip, Kepler, multiply. It is (simplifying) the fifteenth generation of GeForce. In cards GPU mobile, Radeon 6970M, the current top of range, can handle 2 GB of RAM and is compatible with DirectX 11.
In mobility, the first Bluetooth cards arrive: format Compact Flash, they are worth about €250. In laptops, IBM announced that the Thinkpad will be delivered with Linux preinstalled (TurboLinux) because there is a demand. But Windows Me will remain in part on the side of the system open source. Finally, Plextor Announces the decision of its line of SCSI CD drives and CD burners.
In 2011, the Bluetooth is standard in lots of machines and chips are worth only a few dollars. For laptops, some try to still offer of Linux as the operating system (there is a demand) but it is still (too) rare. If Linux is not imposed in 10 years in the public computer, it is still widely used in many areas, smartphones for example. Finally, in the small world of optical drives, the SCSI is, like the PATA. And if the SATA is omnipresent, the future of the same optical drives is dark: they are less and less used.
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