The Future According To nVidia

NerdMaster writes "Last week nVidia held their Spring 2008 Editor's day, where they presented their forthcoming series of graphics processing units. While the folks at Hardware Secrets couldn't tell the details of the new chips, they posted some ideas of what nVidia is seeing as the future of computing. Basically more GPGPU usage, with the system CPU losing its importance, and the co-existence of ray-tracing and rasterization on future video cards and games. In other words, the 'can of whoop-ass' nVidia has promised to open on Intel."

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Sounds like BS

[gweihir]

And nVidia has been spouting a lot of this lately. Is the company in trouble and the top executives are now trying to avoid that impression by constantly talking aboit how bright the future is for their company? Quite possible, I would say.

As to the claim that the GPU will replace the CPU: Not likely. This is just the co-processor idea in disguise. Eventually this idea will fade again, except for some very specific tasks. A lot of things cannot be done efficiently on a CPU. I have to say I find the idea of the GPU actually becomming less important, because of more available general-purpose CPUs actually a lot more convincing. And it has the advantage of far simpler hardware. Especially nVidia GPUs have ben riddled with problems for some time now. CPUs (either AMD or Intel) have not been.