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The Intel research blog has always been an excellent source of information and news about what technology one expects to see a few years down the line and what ‘kind’ of processors would power the computers of the future.Today, I use a Core 2 Duo CPU which is almost 20 times faster than that. Coming from an engineering background, I have played with the 8085 and 8086 processors that are considered the great grand fathers of current processors.