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The CPU Redefined: AMD Torrenze and Intel CSI
janp writes "In the near future the Central Processing Unit (CPU) will not be as central anymore. AMD has announced the Torrenza platform that revives the concept of co-processors. Intel is also taking steps in this direction with the announcement of the CSI. With these technologies in the future we can put special chips (GPU's, APU's, etc. etc.) directly on the motherboard in a special socket. Hardware.Info has published a clear introduction to AMD Torrenza and Intel CSI and sneak peaks into the future of processors."
The first details emerged half a year ago:
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IBM and Intel Corporation, with support from dozens of other companies, have developed a proposal to enhance PCI Express* technology to address the performance requirements of new usage models, such as visualization and extensible markup language (XML).
The proposal, codenamed "Geneseo," outlines enhancements that will enable faster connectivity between the processor -- the computer's brain -- and application accelerators, and improve the range of design options for hardware developers.
http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/2
Here spins the Wheel Of Reincarnation http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/W/wheel-of-re incarnation.html watch how everything comes back and then goes away again and then comes back . . .
If this were really happening, what would you think?
Nope, the A500 also had 4096 colours in HAM mode. They were basically the same hardware, except the A2000 had different - and more - expansion slots and was a desktop machine while the A500 was a typical home computer/console kind of thingy.