Intel Pledges 80 Cores in Four-Five Years (2010-2011)

http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/intel-developers-forum-roundup-four-cores-now-80-cores-later/

teraflop performance (about a petaflop, 1,000 times more, is needed to simulate the human brain)

Intel's announcements are in line with projections made by Ray Kurzweil and Hans Moravec on the accelerating rate of processing speed and its ultimate application to robot intelligence.

Tri-gate transistors will probably be coming out at about the same time.

"The chipmaker projected that by 2010 tera-scale servers will make up about 25 percent of all server sales."

http://www.intel.com/technology/mooreslaw/

"Real-time natural language translation. Imagine being able to speak to someone in a foreign country and having your conversation translated real-time.
Facial recognition that works accurately and instantaneously. Imagine being able to capture faces as people enter an airport and match them in real-time against a database of known terrorists, and having a turnstile lock if there is a match.
Auto chauffeur. Imagine a car that takes a verbal command for a destination, and can drive you there via the least congested route in the safest possible manner."


http://www.intel.com/technology/techresearch/terascale/index.htm

http://www.intel.com/technology/techresearch/idf/fall-2005-keynote.htm -2015-"Technologies that are 'aware'"

About 100,000 10 teraflops Intel processors would make an exaflop supercomputer, which is required for brain uploading. Supercomputers have tens of thousands of processors. "The Blue Gene/L contains 130,000 processors."