Thursday, June 14, 2007

What hath Katzybites wrought?

So my old college baseball buddy Andy Katz invites to participate in a free-form, multidimensional, all-access, no-holds-barred Web forum called Andy Katz 360 ... and the best I can come up with for an initial post is to pass along the following geek tidbits I picked up at work:

The new IBM POWER6 processor, released last week, weighs less than one ounce, but is twice as powerful as the 1.5 ton supercomputer that bested Garry Kasparov in a famous chess match 10 years ago. The new chip has 750,000,000 transistors, and enough bandwidth to download the entire iTunes catalog in 60 seconds.

The global struggle of man versus machine is nigh. I think Shefty may be one of them...

1 comment:

Shefty said...

Actually, I can download the entire I-tunes catalog in 53 seconds, so...