NVIDIA's Lead Scientist Interviewed

Posted by Zonk on Thursday July 14, 2005 @01:28AM from the he-makes-shiny-things dept.

rtt writes "bit-tech.net has up an interview with NVIDIA's chief scientist, David Kirk, about the PlayStation 3, next-generation architectures and what to expect in PC gaming. From the article: 'We're going to see the next generation of shader-based games. At the first generation, we saw people using a shader to emulate the hardware pipeline, and finding "Hey - this really is programmable". After that, they tried to do a few things with more lights, using perhaps eight instead of ten. Then they started to write material shaders, and they made great cloth and metal effects that we saw. People are now starting to change the lighting model, and are exploring the things that they can do with that.'"

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With the PS3 being Linux... by wowbagger · 2005-07-14 02:05 · Score: 1, Flamebait

With the PS3 + disk drive being a Linux machine, are we STILL going to be stuck with closed-source binary-only kernel modules, or will NVIDIA actually start to make good drivers.

(of course, I already know the answer.)

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