U-blog 3

I came across an interesting article at www.technologyreview.com I want to share. Intel held a workshop discussing an emerging technology. At the learning workshop intel engineers explain how Intel, the biggest microchip maker, will revolutionize the way future information will be handled. The article explains how Intel has plans to design a more power saving chip that will be the force that drives most future products. The new chip will have features that will allow computers and servers to run faster without an increase for more power. Intel will place a new feature called a power saving control on the actual chip whose only responsibility is to monitor the workload of each the chips individual processor. For example if one core on a dual core processor is active, the power saving control unit will completely shut down the inactive core allowing spare power to allocate to the active core. At the workshop spectators further listened to the development of a way to shut down transistors completely when they are not in use. Transistors tend to still leak electricity even if they are shut down so this feature increases power saving. So ultimately this emerging technology will enable computers to render 3-D animation twice as fast as the swiftest chips today, producing more realistic video games and top-quality animation. Another addition is multi-threading which allows each core to accept twice as much data. Software that is coded to utilize multi-threading can convert a dual-core computer into a four core computer. The name of this new chip is Nehalem. I just found this really interesting and wanted to share the info because information is power and I'm trying to be buff.

U-blog 2

I came across an article at computerworld.com about the issue of there not being enough qualified IT workers available in the market. The author discusses how he believes it is ridiculous that when money is tight for companies, it’s too often that IT's training budget is the first to be cut. He comments on how training has been treated as a benefit, something to be lavished on those who have time rather than a method for a team or the corporate culture. Today with economic and financial troubles the large training budgets are gone, and therefore are the days of training your own employees. I hope by the time I graduate the economy will be stable again and more companies will pay for employee training because I would hate to have to pay for my certifications out of pocket after I just spent 75,000 on my bachelors lol.......but not funny.