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The Future According To nVidia

Posted by kdawson on from the when-all-you've-got-is-a-hammer dept.

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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  1. Re:Yawn by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The future according to Goatse.. P1st fR0st!
    The future according to anonymous coward.. more trolling, offtopic, flamebait-ness, with the odd insightful or funny.
    The future according to Ballmer.. inflated Vista sales (it's his job, damnit!).
    The future according to Microsoft shill 59329.. "I hate Microsoft as much as the next guy, but Vista really is t3h w1n! Go and buy it now!"
    The future according to Stallman.. Hurd.

    BTW The promo video for HURD is going to feature Stallman as a Gangsta rapper, and features the phrase: "HURD up to ma Niggaz."

  2. Re:Yawn by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The future according to the past...the present.

  3. Re:Well API isn't their department by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    >openGL is an open source project?
    Well, DUH! It has the word "open" in it, doesn't it?

  4. Zen koan. by Hankapobe · · Score: 2, Funny

    The future according to the past...the present.

    Ahhhh. You are a Zen Master. Please, teach us more!

  5. Re:Yawn by ceoyoyo · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now what's wrong with more bars with more bartenders behind them so you get your drinks faster? Really, all this criticism of the American government when they're really trying to do something quite noble. :P

  6. Re:Who will have the better Linux driver support? by Hal_Porter · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's my main influence when I purchase video cards. Hi!

    I'm the CEO of NVidia and I spend all day reading slashdot. Despite that I hadn't noticed that Linux was popular until I read your post.

    I'll tell the driver developers to start fixing the drivers now.

    Thanks for the heads up

    Jen-Hsun Huang
    CEO, NVidia Inc
    --
    echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;