> How ling is it before nvidia and amd realizes that if they extend > their gpu ISA with a few general purpose instructions and they can > already replace the cpu in a pc? That would give them a completely > locked pc. > > M$ would love that!
Don't give them any ideas... :-( >From what I've been seeing it looks like the plan is to have the CPU and GPU on the same chip/die. Instead of an x4 CPU you might have 3 CPUs plus a GPU. Which would have some technical advantages, such as being able to alternate CPU and GPU working on the same data without having to ship it back and forth across a slow bus. The problem being that they might not document the GPU portion. _______________________________________________ Open-hardware mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-hardware
