(iTers News) -Coming flush in a wealth of sensors, microprocessors, and wireless communications chips, today’s computing devices are getting a lot smarter not only seeing around themselves, but also hearing the way people do. They are also getting more and more connected with each other to create, share, analyze data to predict what is going to happen.

 

By 2020, for example, there will about 50 billion connected devices, opening up the floodgate for explosions in the data traffic.  The prospects explain the reason why microprocessor chips giant Intel Corp. still remains sanguine about the future.

 

“Thanks to Moore’s Law that has been over the 50 years, devices have been getting smaller and smaller, and they are getting smarter and smarter. They are also creating a lot of data. Data are getting bigger and bigger. With the data, there are a lot of opportunities. All these devices create a lot of data. All these data will demand a lot of computations using a lot of memory chips and logics and help the semiconductor and the whole entire industry as well as the digital economy to grow. This is wonderful thing,” said Wen Hann Wang, corporate vice president and managing director with Intel Corp.   

 

For example, Intel developed Quark architecture in 2013 to power IoT devices. And in 2014, the chip make came up with Edison processor, a postcard size computer, -the entire computer in small form factor. In early January 2015, Intel debuted a new generation of button-sized computing module codenamed Curie to power wearable device.

 

True enough, Intel already demonstrated to what degree computing devices can get smart, unveiling a prototype of smart clothing, a fabric of wearable computing that can measure body temperature and walking steps.

 

“They can help us to see, listen, remember things, and measure the functions in our body, “said he. He went further to say that devices get smart, so do homes and cities. So, there will be another opportunities, “stressed he                

 

Yet, that’s the tip compared with what’s coming next.

 

According to his vision, the computing devices of the future will not only have to gather and analyze data, but also to predict what to do and make right decisions. To do that, they have to get connected to work together.        

 

“IoT is going to help the industry to grow. We are particularly interested and excited about opportunities that the future device is going to bring. Moving the Moore’s Law forward, I think, it is possible. If we make the world smart, connected, and immersive, we still have thirty years to go. If we have thirty years to go, we have a lot of things to do. One of them is a computational display – holography. In order to make the immersive, we need a super computer to do the rendering. Imagine everybody has a super computer at home, and it will create a lot of opportunities, he added.

 

According to him, physical devices of today will disappear in the future, an instead, virtual devices will float images in front of you. That will require a lot of computing power and a lot of storages. The best display is air, not display. That will require a lot of computations        

 

Deep machine learning is what he envisions as another of the future computing devices.

 

“Computers need to see, listen, and understand. It requires many and many layers of deep learning. Each learning layer requires a lot of computing power and a lot of storage.”

 

He also believes that the industry is just at the beginning of exploiting cognitive computing.

 

“So, the future is very, very exciting. It is going to be smart, connected and immersive, ‘he concluded.

 

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