Metals: the necessary calculation power out of reach?

For its first publication devoted to the metarers, Intel does not go there dead hand.According to one of the largest flea manufacturers in the world, the future internet form is not for immediately.The reason is simple, the world does not have the capacities to ensure a viable metavers in the coming years.

It will be necessary to see "all the plumbing of the Internet"

This is the conviction expressed by Raja Koduri, senior vice-president and managing director of the Accelerated Computing Systems and Graphics group in Intel, in a blog post published on December 14.

He admits that several elements encourage the enthusiasm of this digital future dreamed of by Mark Zuckerberg: the realism of animation in video games, cinema, rapid progress of virtual reality and augmented reality, the still reinforced placeDigital in our lives with COVVI-19 pandemic, dematerialized financial technologies ...

Certainly, but Raja Koduri asks his readers to represent the necessary needs to simply place two people in a virtual social context.It takes a convincing environment as well as credible avatars, all with a minimum latency.According to the Intel framework, "you will quickly realize that our current calculation, storage and network infrastructure is simply not sufficient to allow this vision".

To achieve a large -scale metavers as presented in fictions like Ready Player One, it would simply be necessary to upgrade "all the plumbing of the Internet".According to him, the computer necessary to make billions of humans accessible to billions of humans would require "calculation efficiency 1,000 times higher than the current state of the technique".

Intel wants its place in the metarers

In an interview with Quartz and relayed by Gizmodo, Raja Koduri believes that according to Moore's law, on the evolution of computing computing power, the computing power will only be 8 to 10 times higher within five years.As a reminder, Facebook that has become Meta, dreams of a viable metarers within 10 to 15 years.

Of course, this pessimism is relative in Raja Koduri.No question that Intel abandons a future where a tech company every week seems to be announced by a few hundred million euros in investment to 10 billion for the most enthusiastic (Facebook).

Raja Koduri pleads for standards open around the metarers, a will that seems to be consensus.He also explains, without surprise, that Intel products will be able to make this "dream" reach.The future will say it.