I just don't think the lack of side port ram is a deal breaker is all. It would be nice, but system ram is cheap, and it looks like the cool developments are in other directions. I'd be happy to be proved wrong.
True enough about the restricted nature of console gaming, but don't expect that to inform 'Big Silicon' in its future decisions. Money is their only friend.
It is only about the money. All decisions ultimately come back to that. With Penryn, huge fabricating plants were coming online, and they couldn't have justified (to shareholders) not following through. That it kept Intel's jackboot firmly on the AMD windpipe was in that instance a happy sweetener.
Think back to the early 90s, WordPerfect ruled the land. Then Sweet William emailed his minions instructing them to deliberately withhold the knowledge of Windows' inner workings, so that Novell would be left out in the cold. The relevant quote from Ars Technica's front page story-
"I have decided that we should not publish these extensions," wrote Gates. "We should wait until we have away to do a high level of integration that will be harder for likes of Notes, WordPerfect to achieve, and which will give Office a real advantage... We can't compete with Lotus and WordPerfect/Novell without this."
Video on the cpu may be faster but you are still using the same system ram and that is not as fast that ram on a video card and that ram it on it's own.
Nobody could argue against that, but the two approaches solve different problems currently. If the drift is towards an all in one solution, then the drift is towards less capable, but cheaper tech. Most gamers are console gamers, perhaps the chip makers are coming to the conclusion that dedicated GPUs for the PC are a blind alley (a shame IMHO).
I am nobody's fanboy, but I kinda believe that if/when the transition to 64-bit picks up speed, Intel would miraculously produce something fairly crushing.
Your post makes me think that Intel will attempt a take-over of Nvidia, hostile or otherwise. But I have no knowledge in this area.
The article doesn't say whether these chips are cheaper to make than the current technology. That will be the deciding factor regarding how soon these make their way into our portable devices.
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New technology will make the Human race indistinguishable from gods in many ways.
The question is- Do we, as a race, set about becoming good at techniques such as genetic engineering, or do we sit back and wait for crazy shit to happen (evil billionaires, rogue states etc.)?
You have been busy... I was just trying to point out the ludicrous pointlessness of these lists. They will one day identify the slack, vinegary lobe of the human brain that gets juiced by the thought of top 10s. If I don't get to mine first with a soldering iron through the ear that is.
it appears that the only way to stop crap like this would be active forms of civil disobedience
Then you get arrested, and even if you are found innocent, or released without charge, they take a DNA sample which stays on record forever (or until the EU save us).
We are fairly far into the rabbit hole at this point.
Wait.... Applekid lecturing me about the Future of Games?
Snark aside, I think that the true future is a combination of both methods, with ray-tracing being used for light effects over the top of rasterized 3d models.
After all, that's (pretty much) how it works in real life....
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I just don't think the lack of side port ram is a deal breaker is all. It would be nice, but system ram is cheap, and it looks like the cool developments are in other directions. I'd be happy to be proved wrong.
True enough about the restricted nature of console gaming, but don't expect that to inform 'Big Silicon' in its future decisions. Money is their only friend.
I refer the right honourable gentleman to the answer I gave, some moments ago...
It is only about the money. All decisions ultimately come back to that. With Penryn, huge fabricating plants were coming online, and they couldn't have justified (to shareholders) not following through. That it kept Intel's jackboot firmly on the AMD windpipe was in that instance a happy sweetener.
I remember the days when a youngster could go to bed dreaming of Longhorn firing bits through a tweaked Sexium....
To your general point- I fully agree, what with my 8800 equipped Ubuntu box 'n all.
I am nobody's fanboy, but I kinda believe that if/when the transition to 64-bit picks up speed, Intel would miraculously produce something fairly crushing.
Your post makes me think that Intel will attempt a take-over of Nvidia, hostile or otherwise. But I have no knowledge in this area.
I vote AMD hit back with "Orgo" and "Ftoomsh"
Additionally, when you make the voltage smaller, you can increase the complexity of the silicon, packing more functions per unit volume.
The article doesn't say whether these chips are cheaper to make than the current technology. That will be the deciding factor regarding how soon these make their way into our portable devices.
This should have been posted at 1h59m26s past midnight.
I'll be able to take my N95 away for a weekend without the charger.....
New technology will make the Human race indistinguishable from gods in many ways.
The question is- Do we, as a race, set about becoming good at techniques such as genetic engineering, or do we sit back and wait for crazy shit to happen (evil billionaires, rogue states etc.)?
You have been busy... I was just trying to point out the ludicrous pointlessness of these lists. They will one day identify the slack, vinegary lobe of the human brain that gets juiced by the thought of top 10s. If I don't get to mine first with a soldering iron through the ear that is.
It's equally relevant....
I'd like to see battles involving the house robots from the world's various iterations of robot wars.
That would be cool.
We are fairly far into the rabbit hole at this point.
A deal. But really, I don't think that it's fair to equate collaboration with Microsoft, with collaboration with the Nazis.
I mean, the Nazis never would have released ME.
Tag this story 'Quisling'.
But it intends to be able to reproduce reality via a set of starting assumptions, no?
Wait.... Applekid lecturing me about the Future of Games?
Snark aside, I think that the true future is a combination of both methods, with ray-tracing being used for light effects over the top of rasterized 3d models.
After all, that's (pretty much) how it works in real life....