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Twilight of the GPU — an Interview With Tim Sweeney

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the steady-march-of-progress dept.

cecom writes to share that Tim Sweeney, co-founder of Epic Games and the main brain behind the Unreal engine, recently sat down at NVIDIA's NVISION con to share his thoughts on the rise and (what he says is) the impending fall of the GPU: "...a fall that he maintains will also sound the death knell for graphics APIs like Microsoft's DirectX and the venerable, SGI-authored OpenGL. Game engine writers will, Sweeney explains, be faced with a C compiler, a blank text editor, and a stifling array of possibilities for bending a new generation of general-purpose, data-parallel hardware toward the task of putting pixels on a screen."

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

    On a day when Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch, the backbone of our economy, "died", to make these kinds of heartless statements is just pandering to the prejudices of the liberal elite. Instead of buying a Mac you should buy a Dell (which is far more "American" in the truest sense of the word) and instead of irresponsible talk of combining CPU and GPU you should keep them well separated for the good of our nation.

    Our country is built on a strong consumer market; it is "progressives" like you who are causing this crisis, which might even result in a president with an Afro. Shame on you.

  2. Re:For once ... by Goldberg's+Pants · · Score: 5, Funny

    what's a few more inches?

    The difference between "Is it in yet?" and "Dear god you're ripping me in two!"

  3. Poor Intel by Ostracus · · Score: 2, Funny

    "It seems to me that Tim puts a bit too much faith in compilers."

    Itanium

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  4. Re:For once ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    A also stands for asshole. D stand for dick. And dicks want to fuck all the pussies, but assholes just want to go around shitting on everybody. But you know what? Dicks also fuck assholes.

  5. As Good as it Gets by Sponge+Bath · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...a C compiler, a blank text editor, and a stifling array of possibilities

    Assuming he means Emacs, then this is the way God intended it to be.

  6. FYI he's talking about girth, not length. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    If they're not curling their toes and mimicking a seizure, you're doing it wrong, or she's got some issues.

    http://www.goaskalice.columbia.edu/2524.html

  7. Re:For once ... by crhylove · · Score: 4, Funny

    Your mom's basement sounds WAY more fun than mine.

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