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Intel Reveals the Future of the CPU-GPU War

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the state-of-the-chip dept.

Arun Demeure writes "Beyond3D has once again obtained new information on Intel's plans to compete against NVIDIA and AMD's graphics processors, in what the Chief Architect of the project presents as a 'battle for control of the computing platform.' He describes a new computing architecture based on the many-core paradigm with super-wide execution units, and the reasoning behind some of the design choices. Looks like computer scientists and software programmers everywhere will have to adapt to these new concepts, as there will be no silver bullet to achieve high efficiency on new and exotic architectures."

6 of 231 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Sure there is by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    And hello bloat!

  2. Re:Great! by nuzak · · Score: 3, Funny

    Intel doesn't go around telling us that their design will push 17 hojillion gigazoxels, with more computing power than Deep Blue, HAL, and I AM put together, in order to render better-than-real detail in realtime while simultaneouslly giving you a handjob and ordering flowers for your gf.

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  3. when will intel figure it out.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    They suck so badly at making GPUs it's like watching the special olympics...

  4. Great expectations! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Easiest way to make sure a product doesn't meet expectations is to raise expectations."

    Sex with geeks is great!

  5. Re:Great! by Fred_A · · Score: 2, Funny

    I know people will cry about the console market being different, but the principals of the decisions are the same.
    No, it's quite different, the console market is indeed different since it's more like high school. In the PC market we don't have principals, we have managers.
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  6. Re:Not quite by chudnall · · Score: 2, Funny

    Dude, you think C and Fortran are the main alternatives to functional languages?
    Dude, you have the Abstract Math gene.


    Dude, you have the dude gene. Help is available. The first step is to admit you have a problem...
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