Madrigal examines Microsoft’s claim that the servers for their recently announced Xbox One gaming system will exceed “the entire world’s computing power in 1999.” He gets Martin Hilbert, who co-authored a paper on world processing capacity over time, to weigh in:
“I think the reality is rather that the computing power of this cluster is equal to the world’s total computing power in 1994 or the world’s general-purpose computing power in 1996.” As he summed it up, “I’d say they are some 5 years off… but nevertheless very impressive!”
The Dish 