Looking Back On How Far Technology Has Come. (CPU)

Way back when, computers were generally very expensive, and it took my family some time to even get our first computer. Back then, there was not any budget computer for under $500 or even $1000. Budget computer were pretty much unheard of then.

My family first computer was a 350Mhz AMD CPU, and at the time it was fast, or that is until shortly after the 400Mhz came out. Those where the times that there were huge leaps in CPU clock speeds.

Eventually AMD was the first company to break the 1Ghz CPU clock speed. This was a big deal back then. Intel took longer to get their 1Ghz CPU out.

Back then, all CPU's were single cored, and didn't do multitasking very well. There where special motherboards that incorporated dual CPU sockets that allowed dual CPU's to work somewhat together, but this was expensive. The motherboard was expensive, and one needed to buy two same CPU's to plug in.

My first gaming computer was a 1.9Ghz AMD Athlon, and it was light years ahead of my 350Mhz machine, but my Athlon was still a single cored 32bit CPU.

Later, both Intel and AMD began working on 64bit CPUs, which worked better, but Windows didn't have a 64bit OS that worked properly with the 64bit CPU until a little bit later.

Eventually until recently, both Intel and AMD began creating multi-cored CPUs.

In the beginning, I was a huge AMD fan, and wanted all my computers with AMD CPU's. Eventually that would change because for a long while AMD didn't have the competitive CPU's like I knew them. Intel started coming out with impressive CPU's, and most of the computers that were coming out had Intel chips in them.

I eventually and recently got my gaming laptop with a quad core Intel i7 CPU, which I am very happy with today.

The future now has both Intel and AMD not just making their CPU's faster but adding more cores and making them more efficient. Both Intel and AMD are coming out with eight cored CPU's which are quite impressive, and I can't wait to see what comes out in the future.