About the changing of the way we overclock, it is true that one can't OC any more a SB processor the way we used to. There are two things though that I'd like to point out:
1.$$$-aware customers and low cost OCers didn't really considered Intel as a real option, except in the brief Celeron 300A days and a bit in the C2D-based Pentium DC days. What is lost now is competition in the 100 to 200$ market for offering the best OCing chip. Intel practically set a great pass to AMD, now AMD has to touch-down with Bulldozer.
2.In the 2000's PCI clocks were tied to FSB, thus overclocking was difficult as they are now in SB. We could have gained most 10% without PCI/AGP lock. Now there are many more components integrated on the boards, which have higher speed and thus are more sensitive - the result is only 1-2% bclk is possible in SB. Intel can introduce a second PLL on-board to take care of all the rest clocks except bclk and recycle a synchronization protocol between these two clocks from the FSB-era chipsets. They haven't implemented that in SB probably because of the complexity of the new architecture. If they're gonna do it or not in Ivy Bridge, it depends on how much mind-share they're gonna loose with enthusiasts due to the solution adopted in SB.

most of those predictions are observations made after the fact rather then predictions.

For example, the ARM vs x86 war prediction? hardly a prediction now that MS officially announced windows 8 will support both ARM And x86.

Tablet PCs are the new phenomenon? not a prediction, it already happened.

Accelerated Computing Era Begins? not a prediction, happened already.

Now you do make SOME actual predictions, for example, "Motion-Controlling Set to Become Big" is a prediction. The fact that motion controlling exists is an observation, the prediction you make is that it is going to be a big success.

Remember when you predicted DX11 games to take over the horizon faster than a locust outbreak, for last year? Nope, only 7 games out so far that support DX11 (IIRC.. look it up on Wikipedia). http://en.wikipedia.org/w...s_with_DirectX_11_support

Hahahha!! Sorry for giving you a hard time, but yeah.. sorry man, again.. spank me real hard! Seriously!

BTW, I love articles like this--reading about predictions from a well-sourced editor.

I just want to get rid of bios.

3d will never become standard in its current form. The glasses are a pain and give many people headaches. It will remain a niche until it gets rid of the glasses.

Just because AMD bought ATI does not mean NVIDIA is required to create their own x86 hardware and compete with AMD and Intel (even though they have talked about it). AMD simply bought ATI meaning they didn't have to do anything with their GPU design and obviously AMD already had their x86. Why would that make NVIDIA required to create x86 platform to compete. Over half of all GPUs used in systems (more in laptops) are NVIDIA and they just released the end all be all of GPUs (GTX 580) which will have people drooling for the next year. I don't think this will make or break the biggest IGP in the world. Being a little dramatic are we?

the one thing i do not get is that the architecture stil is based on the 8086 architecuur, interupt architectuur, not task technologie end architectuur