Windows 2020 will be an advancement on its predecessor, which introduced the Advanced New Technology Journaling Intelligent File System; which supports up to a byte short of 100 terabytes maximum file size: (ANTJIFS required a new type of hard-drive technology to be introduced. – Read on -) A journaling and indexing file system that is almost backwards-compatible with the NTFS file system; providing particular optimisation for the coming 128-bit version of Windows, which is nearing the end of the development stage before it goes into alpha testing. Commonly in use are 20TB SSDs. While 25TB spinning-platter drives are still available, they tend to be less popular than their hyperflash-memory based counterparts due to their much longer access times. These drives that it runs on are self-maintaining intelligent units in their own right. Each is controlled by its own inbuilt multi-cored embedded processor, which handles all of the drive’s own self-maintenance functions, including defragmentation in the case of the spinning-platter drives, error checking and reporting, file-system maintenance, data-transfer optimisation along the laser-serial-sideband SATA 4 lead to the motherboard’s controller units, and advanced dual-parity filtering – in which a small unused section of the drive is automatically partitioned off, divided into 2, and data suspected of encountering corruption is copied off of the main drive, and run in a RAID 1 environment while being rigorously processed and checked for errors, at the same time of which the disc surface or hyperflash memory area where the data was copied from is electronically processed and returned to as-new condition, or as near as possible, before the recovered data is transferred back onto it and the recently-created partitions unmounted and reallocated back as unused space.

Thanks mainly to this new file system, initially proposed in a far-lesser-format as long ago as 2006, it is possible to run any number up to the cube of 16 hexadecimal = 10648 separate drives per operating system. This could well be particularly useful when running the coming 128-bit operating system, which will make provision for a hugely more-numerous number of locations in the internal memory-allocation system, causing the use of multiple (smaller) hyperflash SSD data-storage drives to increase overall performance and optimise maximum data transfer speeds to a completely new level never yet experienced and without the slightest bottleneck occurring at any point.

Processor technology has begun to be optimised using multiple 3D-Matrix fabrication and internal layout technologies; allowing a fully-integrated dual-cached controller-core to interconnect 64 cores virtually seamlessly. This led to the end of the flat-shaped processor, which in itself threw up several problems with regard to cooling, as heat needed to be conveyed from each core within a 3-dimensional structure to the Universal Cooler fitted to the motherboard. The problem was solved by using a nitrogen-based  liquid coolant, pumped around a series of cooler-pipes within the processor-block’s structure itself, leading from a single cooler-input nozzle, through the built-in network of tiny coolant-tubes, and back to a single output nozzle. These internal tubes are flow-regulated by tiny piezo-controlled internal valves, which supply the relevant amount of coolant to the cores that are currently doing the most work, suppressing it to the less-active cores at any given point in time.

The processor is connected by 3 sockets of 1001 pins each; one of which the processor-box seats itself into during fitting, the other two are connected and secured into place on adjacent sides by the metal securing-straps fastened permanently to the socket-mountings.

The two tiny 32-gigabyte DDR6+ solid-state RAM-sticks use a similar fabrication technology, combining a newly-developed carbon-nanotube structure, allowing billions of triple-molecule-doped selenium alloy transistors of only approximately 16nm in size to be arrayed in columns on the outer surfaces of each individual nanotube.

The processor , seemingly bulky compared to today’s equivalent components, isn’t just a processor: As well as the 64-core (with “coming-soon” 128-bit-capable) 3D Matrix technology, it also carries an inbuilt northbridge and southbridge, plus a third, recent addition, the graphics-bridge: This gives a basic serial digital video-output on main and multiple-sideband frequencies compressed into 24-channels, which can be used to provide onboard-graphics via an accelerator matrix chip, or otherwise can be fed to a Super-PCIe x 32 socket, and on to an advanced multi-GPU graphics card with 9 billion transistors and 15,648 advanced-stream-processors per GPU.

This is a top-of-the-range, cutting-edge technology, PC from 2020, gearing up to the release of Windows 64/128 in 2026. Will this actually be what a PC is like then? Probably, if I’m right; but developments might make certain things’ appearance happen a bit faster, and other things’ appearance slower. Alternatively an amazing sudden development heralding a totally new way of looking at things could mean that current technologies are never developed to this level. – Who knows? – We’ll find out if I was right in just over 12-years-time.

- I’m not really looking forward to being 57 years old though; but I suppose it happens to everyone in time.

You want pictures? – Where the hell am I going to get pictures of 2020’s technology?! I’m a blogger, not a time-traveller.

What do you think computers of 2020 will be like? This advanced, or less so?