Although there are still some disputes, but most recognized "notebook computer" or from the Toshiba T1100 launched in 1985 began, it was considered to be truly "world's first commercial notebook computer": The frequency less than 1MHz Intel 8086 processor, 9-inch monochrome display, MS-DOS operating system. Toshiba T1100 notebook's size is 12 × 2 × 11 inches, weighing about 4.1 kg machine; with clam shell design provides a full size 82 key keyboard, 512KB of RAM and a built-in modem.
The world's first notebook - Toshiba T1100
But even back in 1985, Toshiba T1100 notebook not much practical use: because of its performance with the same period, very different compared to the desktop, nor convenient to use; and use an external power supply required for the notebook , because there was no specific notebook built-in battery.
Having a notebook of "originator", we should take now and the future of notebooks and the "grandfather" some more:
First, the performance of the notebook is powerful than, many times before, the future of the notebook is more powerful:
The most powerful processor is Intel's Core i7-920XM Extreme Edition processor, this processor clocked at 2.0GHz, Core frequency by frequency technology can be upgraded to 3.2GHz; and then use the Intel Toshiba T1100 8086 processor clocked at less than 10MHz, 1GHz = 1000MHz according to calculations, only the processing speed, now the notebook processor products should more than 25 years ago hundreds of times faster. Here are just from the frequency perspective, it does not take into account the processor architecture, core number, cache and front side bus, in fact, the performance gap may be greater.
Most properties of the most powerful processor Core i7-920XM
Here is the Intel processor to give an example, the same is true for AMD processors, why the development of notebook processors, so quickly? In fact, thanks to Intel's famous "Moore's Law": simply the integrated circuit chip, the number of transistors every 18 months to double; microprocessor performance every 18 months to improve doubled, while prices fell by half.
Toshiba T1100 notebook is used in Intel's 8086 processor in 1978, this processor is based on 3000 nanometer manufacturing process, in a chip integrated 29 000 transistors; 1997 launch of the Pentium 2 processor with 350-nanometer process, in a chip integrates 7.5 million transistors; and the latest Core i7 processor using 32-nanometer manufacturing process, integrated in a chip transistors 731,000,000, an increase of 25,206 times in 32 years. Notebook processor can be seen more and more advanced manufacturing process, a single more and more transistors on a chip, performance is also growing.
It can be speculated that the future of notebook processors to more advanced manufacturing process: to the end of 2011, using 22 nanometer manufacturing process of the processor mass production; in the 22-nanometer process will be after the battle of 15-nanometer manufacturing process, Intel should be in 2013 the introduction of the fourth quarter of 15-nanometer process. In two years, that is, the fourth quarter of 2015, Intel should be the introduction of more advanced 11-nanometer manufacturing process. After the 11 nm CPU, Intel, of course progress in accordance with the original process will continue to introduce more advanced CPU products, 11 nm may be after the debut of 7-nanometer process. . .
Process technology advances is the number of transistors on a single chip multiplier: 2011 launch of the 22-nanometer process processor integrates 10 million transistors, hundreds of billions of instructions per second, perform a chip; by 2013 , 2015. . . This quantity in turn multiplied several-fold, with the corresponding performance of the processor will also be several-fold. At the same time, advances in process technology can reduce the processor's chip area, reduce the heat.
In the "Moore's Law" under the influence of processing power future laptops are more advanced than they are now, and the chips smaller, lower heat; reduce the chip size is also conducive to the appearance of the slim notebook and laptop in the amount of post-natal chip costs will be reduced.
Mentioned above, only a laptop processor performance improvements, we can not ignore the notebook to enhance the performance of other components: in particular, the core graphics performance is also developing rapidly, as also belong to the chip manufacturing industry, ATI 或者 NVIDIA graphics chip, the introduction of independent process has been steadily progressing - NVIDIA has been developing from 65 nm to 40 nm to 28 nm future development; ATI upgrade from 55 nm to 40 nm, the future will also be developed to 28 nm. Similarly, the future performance notebook graphics cards will also be enhanced, and the graphics card power consumption, lower heat, after production costs are lower. Perhaps in the future we use the laptop to play "Lost Planet", "Crysis" so-called "killer card" large-scale 3D game is only a piece of cake.
In addition, the notebook hard drive, memory performance will be as solid-state drive technology matures and more advanced memory and the enhanced spread of particles.