On 4/21/07, James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Timothy Normand Miller wrote:
> On 4/20/07, Rogelio Serrano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> this can all be rolled into a new northbirdge later.
>
> We're not getting into the MoBo chipset business any time soon.
> Putting aside the complexity and cost, I doubt we could get the
> information we need without signing draconian NDAs.
OT: actually, I understand that Intel is going to fully document the
Pentium bus. The AMD HTX is supposed to be an open standard.
But, to the point, IIUC, motherboards with HTX are supposed to be
looming on the horizon. IIUC, this would be as fast as unified memory
architecture.
how much would it cost? from the looks of it it will be expensive.
i just want an open high flexibility hardware opengl system at the
lowest possible cost both in graphics driver development and hardware
terms. something that is double the performance of the sgi o2 at a
fraction of the price. certainly that level of performance can handle
h.264 already.
i can see that the sgi o2 uma relies on a memory architecture which is
very different from that of pc systems and i think thats the main
reason why amd and intel will not be spitting out hardware with
similar architecture soon. most of the planned architectures are based
on high speed serial busses with local subsystem memories. the sgi uma
goes in the opposite direction. it gets rid of local subsystem
memories and multiple busses and uses a single high speed link to
multi port main memory. im not sure if i understand the last statement
though.
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