Computer architecture

ronano

My friend is doing a project on current developments in computer architecture,he's having trouble finding relevent information online. Any suggestions on website links or phrasing of words to do a search.

Any feedback is greatly appreciated

Dempsey

Computer Architecture, anything specific he wants to do the project on?

He could talk about the current transition from 32-bit CPU's to 64-bit CPU's or the development of SATA over IDE. Hard Drives on how their capacity and speeds have risen dramatically over the last 2 years. Ya could write a novel on Graphics Cards. from AGP 1.0 to AGP 3.0. He could compare memory types, DDR-RAM, SD-RAM and RD-RAM(Rambus). Power and Cooling Requirements Today compared to 4 years ago.

Dont have any good web links at the moment, ill have a look around. Put some of those in to google and ya should get loads.

ronano

Pretty much the overview of where the tech is headed (in a realistic tangable sense)

Pretty much

.input devices
.output devices
.removable media
.Computer types (new tech being intergrated into systems....)
.New/improved forms of data communication
.New developments in types of networks (wan,lan etc)
.New developments in ram chips/motherboards/graphic chips

I wrote most of this out purely so we'd have a course of action ot take but yes thats the general idea of what hes trying to research
Thanks once again

zAbbo

form factor as well, interesting with the emergence of Small Form Factor systems

carrolls

Two great books come to mind, Both written by Patterson/Hennessy.
Computer organization & Design, The Hardware/Software Interface 10/10
Computer Architecture, A quantitive Approach. 9/10
If you are serious about learning computer architecture (especially RISC architecture)
Sell your granny and buy these books.