"You can see essentially a very high performance cluster the size of a desktop, at the cost of a desktop, " says Nvidia board member Steven Chu, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Drives shriveled down to desk size, then to desktop size, then the size of a fat dictionary, followed by a thin paperback, a deck of cards and now just a single card or chip.
That minuscule price is attached to Norhtec's Microclient JrSX, a desktop PC the size of a large novel.
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Sequencing genes on your desktop, swallowing a digital camera the size of a pill?
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Brown argues it Nvidia can double the size of its addressable workstation GPU market by offering more sophisticated visual computing capabilities on desktop workstations for use in visual effects and video editing, among other applications.
Scientists foresee a day when they can churn out virus-size computers, cancer-munching robots swimming through arteries and desktop factories assembling watches out of dust.
Apple kicked things off last night with what had been billed the iPad mini event, but turned out to be a rather larger scale "refresh" of the range than expected, with updated desktop and laptop computers, and a fourth version of the full-size iPad.
One of the best features of devices such as the Palm Pilot and palm-size Windows CE computers is easy synchronization with desktop PCs.
You'll also get a third-gen Core i5 processor with Intel HD Graphics 4000 (no more specifics on that just yet), 4GB of RAM, a Mini DisplayPort that can output a 2560 x 1440 resolution, a full-size USB 3.0 port and, of course, Windows 8 Pro with support for all your traditional desktop applications.
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