[Another technical post. I promise to get back to art next month.] My last post, the one on multicore processors, ended on a down note. I don’t feel great about the future of multicore computing. However, there’s something else on the near horizon that’s going to dramatically increase the performance of photographic computer systems– the… [Read More]

[This post is unabashedly technical, and contains nothing that you absolutely need to be a good photographer. I couldn’t help myself.] You’d have to be living in a cave to miss the big switch in personal computing from a single processor per chip to two or four, with eight coming soon. The power dissipation of… [Read More]