Post-post PC: Materials and Technologies That Could Revive Enthusiast Computing

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Given the recent emphasis on mobile computing and the difficulty of scaling large cores, it's easy to think that enthusiast computing is dead. Easy — but not necessarily true. There are multiple ways to attack the problem of continued scaling (http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/166413-post-post-pc-the-new-materials-tech-and-cpu-designs-that-will-revive-overclocking-and-enthusiast-computing), including new semiconductor materials, specialized co-processor units that implement software applications in silicon, and enhanced cooling techniques to reduce on-die hot spots.

http://it.slashdot.org/story/13/09/22/003231/post-post-pc-materials-and-technologies-that-could-revive-enthusiast-computing