Territory Manager for Intel in South and Sub Saharan Africa, Jacques van Schalkwyk, has said that Intel’s researchers are cooking up a number of ways to advance computing and create a new experience for PC end users.

Schalkwyk, in a press statement disclosed that the research will delve into technology that cuts the power cord and keeps devices charged wirelessly for continuous power, to an  immersive and realistic 3-D internet at one’s fingertips.

According to Schalkwyk, many of the things taken for granted today would prove painful or even impossible on a three to four year old PC, She reiterated that “Watching High Definition (HD) internet TV and video with smooth playback or running multiple programs at the same time might prove to be some of those things you take for granted.”

Schalkwyk stressed that back in the days in 2006, video streaming and HD did not matter that much. These days a lot of information we exchange is image-based.

“Today’s multi-media computers bring this virtual world to colourful life. On today’s PCs based on an Intel Core i7 mobile processor HD video is over three times faster than its distant cousins of 2006,” says Van Schalkwyk. “Your life doesn’t move at one constant pace. If you’re not racing against deadlines at the office, you might be helping the kids finish homework or sharing photos and videos from vacation on Facebook and Twitter,” she said.

Schalkwyk stated that the drammatic changes the PC has undergone in the past four decades are the result of the exponential growth of the computer’s ‘brains’ called the microprocessor. The PC according to her, has transitioned from a complex tool for greeks to a magic box of tricks for everybody.

Taking a trip down memory lane, she stressed that many positive changes that have added value to life has taken place. From the 1970s, when the birth of the personal computer took place in its many wonderful, weird and sometimes immensely impractical forms, to the Smart phones days when the new generation of mobile technology, has enabled additional multimedia features. Email, internet, and data transfer, making it a standard feature.
She recalled that back then, the Intel 4004 computer microprocessor took all of the parts that made a computer think and put them on one chip for the first time ever in 1975.

She also recalled that Dr. Martin Cooper developed the first cellular phone on 3rd April 1973, the Motorola DynaTAC phone was 9 inches long, 5 inches wide and 1.75 inches thick but for the 1980s, with the birth of the Apple Mac, a perennial consumer favourite, which made it debut in 1984 with a built-in audio, a draw and the word programme, chess game and a spreadsheet among others to the 1990s, when Tim Berners Lee developed a new technique for distributing information on the internet, giving birth to the world wide web as popularly known, www (1980).
She also added the YouTube age, a video-sharing website on which users can upload, share, and view videos was launched by three former PayPal employees in 2005.

Facebook also surfaced, encouraging the rise of social media to become a huge trend involving millions of users sharing fun and personal information online.