endimion said:
plus the future is cloud computing... With ever growing bandwidth and shrinking latency one day there will be no point in having a powerful computer when all you'll really need is a good terminal and a big connection... What we will see is home servers or even building servers (it'll be standard in apartment complex one day) and a bunch of terminals that connect to it... Cheaper more efficient etc... But a PC chip that can replace azure let alone a single server farm... Not happening (I don't think you realize the compute power it represents) you could put a thousand i7 last gen CPU with max ddr4 ram and 4 titan SLI and still not match what a single MS farm compute power can output... |
Cloud computing has no business and never will have any business with personal computers. I have no interest in letting someone else do my computing for me, let alone internet connections are far off from getting the bandwith and latency for terminals to act as far away thin clients.
What I meant with my first comment is that the Azure platform will only accelerate certain parts of the game (like physics). Regular computers will eventually outpace this feature simply because Microsoft won't give you more horses at a certain point.
