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Why AMD Could Win The Coming Visual Computing Battle
Vigile writes "The past week has been rampant with discussion on the new war that is brewing between NVIDIA and Intel, but there was one big player left out of the story: AMD. It would seem that both sides have written this competitor off, but PC Perspective thinks quite the opposite. The company is having financial difficulties, but AMD already has the technologies that both NVIDIA and Intel are striving to build or acquire: mainstream CPU, competitive GPU, high quality IGP solutions and technology for hybrid processing. This article postulates that both Intel and NVIDIA are overlooking a still-competitive opponent, which could turn out to be a drastic mistake."
I'm sure those AMD shares will come in handy some day... I, for instance, am out of paper towels.
I thought AMD was dead!
I think its just a move with the cuda engine that needs refinement. As it grows mature, driver issues will subside.
AMD is making a break for the open source arena. I gave Hectar that advice a while ago. Apparently, he was listening in his anonymous drunken stupor on the financial forums. AMD is poised to make a stand in the next 2 to 3 years.
This is definitely a win for the A-Team. I'm sure Mr. T feels pity for the fools...
Look, parallel processing is new for the mainstream. This is the point that Bill McColl made on his blog recently. Read Microsoft Agrees, Parallelism IS The New New Thing!
When Microsoft finally jumps on the bandwagon for something and starts calling it a "new thing" you're sure to know it's at least a decade or more old.
Yeah - they should just stack the dies in some half-ass manner at first. Go back to some kind of Slut configuration, put the dies ass to ass, sandwich the bitch with heat sinks, put high speed interconnects through the ass-to-ass layer, and -tada- you've got the first generation of GPU and CPU in one. It's dirty, it's hot, but it works.
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They can code name it "Finger cuffs" or something equally dumb.
Yeaah - they'll be using more wafer area than they would like, since the GPU and CPU would still be manufactured separately, but they can probably make up for the additional cost by charging some premium price.
Hell, it would still be cool if you could remove the GPU and drop in another one, or do the same with the CPU. At least by keeping the CPU and GPU so close they could keep the interconnect lengths short, and deviate from the AGP/PCI-E standard. That would have to yield some sort of substantial performance gain.
But then again - I have no experience in the manufacturing of these things, so my 2 cents is worth exactly that. I may have a chance getting in as a wafer handling monkey. As long as I don't have to manually stir wafers in HF, I really don't like that
Thats why I only invest in alcohol and gambling stocks
Intel has to buy Nvidia or AMD to be competitive in the long run. There is no try, as if AMD survive, it could hurt badly Intel with CPU+IGP solutions.