On 6/1/07, Dieter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
Maybe we can counter that by having 3 powerpc cores and ogp gpu in one
package. Or maybe build a a very high bandwidth multi port memory
controller.
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