Personal Supercomputers

ENIAC with 17,468 vacuum tubes, 7,200 crystal diodes, 1,500 relays, 70,000 resistors, 10,000 capacitors and around 5 million hand-soldered joints (Info Courtesy: Wikipedia) had far less processing power than today’s desktops/laptops. 50yrs from now, probably the same kind of comment would be made about today’s PCs. Check out this article which talks about the 80 core processor which Intel is developing – A Teraflop chip of the size of a postage chip!

http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=18219&ch=infotech