The New Year is almost here. What 2021 tech are you most or least looking forward to?

[pythonmegapixel]

I'm just interested to see what the tech community is most or least anticipating of, that 2021 will bring.

 

This could be hardware, software - confirmed, rumoured or simply speculative - components, consumer electronic products, or even changes in the market for current tech. Anything tech related really.

 

If there's enough similar responses I might edit and add a poll, but for now, just reply in the comments below

[Senzelian]

I'm excited for what Intel has to show of in 2021.

10nm SuperFIN has to succeed, before AMD becomes too cocky and increases prices again with 6th gen Ryzen.

 

And I want their XE graphics to succeed aswell.

[Dissitesuxba11s]

More ARM based CPUs. Apple pushed the boundaries with their M1 CPU and hopefully it will only get better from here, especially with other companies like Google looking to get into the ARM game as well.

[TrainFan475]

An RTX 3060 for hopefully ≤$350

[Just Monika]

Technology: RTX 3080 Ti. Been waiting for a 20GB variant of the 3080 since launch date and I've been resisting the temptation to buy a 3090 with each passing day that the 3080 Ti doesn't exist. I'm very eager to upgrade from my trusty GTX 1080 and am willing to pay any amount for a 3080 Ti as long as it's reasonably less than a 3090.

 

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[igormp]

Improvements on ROCm from AMD, nvidia really need a contender against CUDA.

 

What will come from the purchase of xilinx from AMD.

 

Nvidia was meant to do some presentation on thei open source works this year, but sadly it got delayed. Let's see it it'll happen next year.

 

New NVIDIA DPUs.

 

More RISC-V based designs.

 

New nvidia embedded board.

[LloydLynx]

I'm excited for GNOME 40 and the transition to GTK4, also better and better Wayland support as time passes.

[SAVE-12-HK]

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[WereCatf]

I'm not aware of any even remotely interesting developments happening in 2021. All I am seeing is small improvements here and there and none of it in any interesting tech, so I have nothing to be anticipatingly excited for.

[Boblbee]

AMD Radeon Graphics Cards

[Amias]

I'd like to see the PC market react to Apple. A unified new architecture spearhead by Microsoft/AMD/Intel etc addressing CPU/GPU/Memory coordination with ARM architecture, including a unified hardware emulation accelerator to shut up all the 'but ma' 90's x86 softwarrrrre' crowd. 

 

I want my CPU / GPU / RAM and Storage to all be working together, we're starting to see it with AMD smart access memory, but it needs full OS down to the metal support. I want the lines between GPU video memory and RAM and storage to be blurred. I want my primary CPU to be running ARM architecture overclocked to the max combined with beefy legacy x86 cooling solutions resulting in them running quiet as a mouse. Then actually produce enough f***ing goddamn chips to supply the demand.

 

Then I can't wait for the S21, iPhone 13, etc with a slightly better camera, slightly faster processor and slightly more RAM to grace our stores, prompting all the phone software to bloat even more resulting in all our currently sufficiently running phones to slow down forcing us to have to upgrade.

[Teddy07]

nothing really. I don´t need more crap to take care of

[CommanderAlex]

Hope that Intel manages to not screw up with their 10nm. 

 

Current release graphics cards to actually be available to buy without having to deal with bots or scalpers and I could just walk into a brick and mortar store, albeit Best Buy or Micro Center, and pick one up off the shelf. 

 

Dune Pro to start shipping before Chinese New Year after numerous delays. 

[pythonmegapixel]

1 hour ago, Boblbee said:

AMD Radeon Graphics Cards

1) why the huge font and 2) Radeon already exists? Do you mean new ones, because I'm not sure there's going to be a new generation in 2021, given one has already been announced in 2020.

 

1 hour ago, Amias said:

I'd like to see the PC market react to Apple. A unified new architecture spearhead by Microsoft/AMD/Intel etc addressing CPU/GPU/Memory coordination with ARM architecture, including a unified hardware emulation accelerator to shut up all the 'but ma' 90's x86 softwarrrrre' crowd. 

 

I want my CPU / GPU / RAM and Storage to all be working together, we're starting to see it with AMD smart access memory, but it needs full OS down to the metal support. I want the lines between GPU video memory and RAM and storage to be blurred. I want my primary CPU to be running ARM architecture overclocked to the max combined with beefy legacy x86 cooling solutions resulting in them running quiet as a mouse. Then actually produce enough f***ing goddamn chips to supply the demand.

If the industry moves in that direction, I would actually be very worried, because I find it likely that it will be the death knell of any operating system other than Windows and OS X. I don't imagine Microsoft rushing to let people install Ubuntu on their new integrated architecture systems...

 

Windows over the past few years has been heading in such a horribly irritating and anti-consumer direction, and I would really hate to be forced to use it again.

[jones177]

My plan for next year are at least three 30 series cards.  Since I need the vram it will be 3090s. It takes about 6 months for me to save the money to buy one so it won't be until June when I buy the second. If a cheaper card comes out with 16gbs or more I will get that. 

 

I also planning to build a new system but I have to "fix" the i9 9900k I have listed below first. After a Windows update It decided to not like the 2080 ti that was in it when rendering videos with Premier. All it did was blue screen. With a GTX 1080 ti it is fine. I am not willing to take out a 2080 ti from a "good" computer to test so I am stuck with it until I get a 30 series card to free up one of the 2080 tis to test. 

The build has a $550 CPU budget so it may be a R9 5900X but if they put out a R7 5800XT I will get that since I don't need all the cores. If Intel can beat the Ryzens by the time I do the build I will stay with them.

 

The last is an 8k TV next black Friday to play Skyrim in 8k.

 

If the world changes and I stop being a shut-in this will change. 

[Amias]

1 hour ago, pythonmegapixel said:

If the industry moves in that direction, I would actually be very worried, because I find it likely that it will be the death knell of any operating system other than Windows and OS X. I don't imagine Microsoft rushing to let people install Ubuntu on their new integrated architecture systems...

 

Windows over the past few years has been heading in such a horribly irritating and anti-consumer direction, and I would really hate to be forced to use it again.

 

Then enjoy your ageing, inefficient and slow hardware.

 

I and 99% of the user-base on the other hand, are going to get super pissed off when Apple starts moving generations ahead of us. Apple can do more with less faster and more efficiently. 

[Senzelian]

31 minutes ago, jones177 said:

If a cheaper card comes out with 16gbs or more I will get that. 

6800XT, if you can find one?

[freeagent]

A new GPU to replace my GTX 980 lol. I cant even buy a 10 series for a decent price. Crackers around here want dam near retail for their old shit.

 

And a Vermeer, which what I originally built this for but cant find.. big shocker.

[jones177]

48 minutes ago, Senzelian said:

6800XT, if you can find one?

I am a 4k gamer that likes ray tracing so AMD does not get my money this gen.

 

[WhitetailAni]

My power supply to arrive.

[Rohith_Kumar_Sp]

3080TI

[Tan3l6]

Not the rev 3 of SARS ... not looking forward to it.

[pythonmegapixel]

2 hours ago, Amias said:

Then enjoy your ageing, inefficient and slow hardware.

 

I and 99% of the user-base on the other hand, are going to get super pissed off when Apple starts moving generations ahead of us. Apple can do more with less faster and more efficiently. 

If 99% of the user-base are prepared to give up their freedom in how they use their computer and what software can be run on it in exchange for a bit more speed, then so be it. I'm well aware that they probably are, I just don't think they're right.

 

I have no objection to any kind of migration to the ARM architecture, just as long as it doesn't come at the price of handing over more control of my life to huge, moronic, privacy-infringing corporations such as Microsoft and Apple. *nix for ARM is very much a thing, so all that needs to happen is the industry needs to not actively lock down systems, and possibly provide some drivers. But I have no faith at all in any of the companies you mention to do that.

 

Alternatively, if Windows becomes less anti-consumer then I would be more than happy to use it. But again, I have no faith in Microsoft to make that happen.

 

It will be a sad day when I have to pay a fee just to run my own code on my own devices. Think that can't happen? Look at the iPhone, and at Windows 10 in Sh*t mode. It's ludicrous.

[SansVarnic]

An Intel GPU. I just want to see it happen. Then we can have full spectrum teams, RBG 

[NineEyeRon]

None for me, no changes planned until 2022 at least, maybe not even then. My system is working well for me and should suffice for a while.