1. The Effects of Future Computer Hardware on Business Management Information Systems (HTM 304) Spring 2007 Section 02/03 Valentin Kifumbi Stuart Pierce Jeremy Quinton

2. The Changing World From fire to supercomputers

3. Then and Now Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC) Worlds Smallest Web Server

4. Affects on Businesses  Worldwide market place  Efficiency and Productivity  Safety  Speed and Pace

5. Objectives  Future Trends in Computer Hardware  Recommendations for Businesses

6. Scope  Computer Hardware limited to: CPU, Memory, Motherboards, and Graphic Cards  Recommendations will be general, geared to all types of businesses

7. Methodology  Personal Information  Library and books  Internet

8. The future of the Central Processing Unit (CPU)

9. AMD Mid-2007? CPU (Barcelona)

10. More Barcelona

11. Late 2007? Intel CPU (Penryn)

12. More near-future trends

13. Nehalem in 2008?

14. Multi-Core Evolution

15. Prototype 80-core teraflop CPU from Intel

16. Closer look at 80 core CPU

17. Up to 256 MB RAM stacked on the CPU

18. Advantages of more on-die memory

19. Increase in specialized microprocessors

20. Combining specialized chips with general-purpose chips

21. Motherboards or Mainboards

22. Intel Series 3 (Bearlake) Chipset

23. PCI Express 2.0 doubles the PCI Express bandwidth shown

24. PCI-Express to have more power for your graphics card

25. Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI)

26. Next-generation Random Access Memory (RAM)

27. Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory (MRAM)

28. Phase-change RAM (PRAM ) 500x faster than flash memory, ½ the power

29. Hard Drives

30. Patterned Media increases storage density

31. Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording (HAMR) increases storage density

32. Samsung 32GB Flash Drive available today for $529 “SILENT. boot times on my laptop were cut more than half.”

33. Optical Storage

34. In-Phase Holographic Storage 300 GB per disc! Recording Reading

35. Next generation graphics from ATI 1GB GDDR4@1.1GHz model 700 million transistors - up to 320 stream processors H.264 and VC-1 support Hardware High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP), High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) 128-bt high-dynamic range rendering (HDR) rendering Requires 250-300 watts of power

36. ATI’s next generation graphics chip, the R600 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJ6aMxPh6k0

37. Recommendations  Plan the use of IT  Managing the computing infrastructure  Managing the enterprise application  Protect information asset  Manage outsourcing relationships

38. Plan the use of IT  Align information system  Communicate IS  Develop and enforce IS

39. Managing the computing infrastructure  Align infrastructure  Create, operate, and maintain  Product standards  Track and monitor resolution  Manage staff

40. Managing the enterprise application  Develop new application  Maintain system  Manage development staff

41. Outsourcing  Advantages  Disadvantages

42. Questions?