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AMD, Intel, and NVIDIA Over the Next 10 Years
GhostX9 writes "Alan Dang from Tom's Hardware has just written a speculative op-ed on the future of AMD, Intel, and NVIDIA in the next decade. They talk about the strengths of AMD's combined GPU and CPU teams, Intel's experience with VLIW architectures, and NVIDIA's software lead in the GPU computing world." What do you think it will take to stay on top over the next ten years? Or, will we have a newcomer that usurps the throne and puts everyone else out of business?
I predict they are seriously mistaken in forgetting about ARM processors in their analysis. ARM processors have taken over pretty much all the mobile and a lot of the netbook space. From wikipedia As of 2007, about 98 percent of the more than one billion mobile phones sold each year use at least one ARM processor ARM Wikipedia The world is getting more and more mobile and the desktop processing capacity is becoming irrelevant.
I believe Moore's Law stating the number of transistors will double on an integrated circuit every two years and the continual increase of CPU GPU processing power is a solution looking for a problem. What we need is power efficient processors that have enough processing capacity to do what we need and nothing more. Unless you are a Gamer or doing some serious GPGPU calculations in CUDA or OpenCL what on earth is the need to have a graphics card like the Nvidia GeForce GT 340 with around 380 GFLOPs of floating point processing. It's ridiculous.