Didn't we move away from one chip handling both graphics and normal processing for a reason? Are we really at a point now where that reason isn't true anymore?
We never moved a away or one chip for all. Both Intel and AMD are set to bring one chip for all solutions the next couple of years or so. There will be a long time before on chip solutions will provide graphics good enough for mid gaming or above. Unless AMD work heavily with ATI. Intel chips will be media accelerator or future larrabee tech.
At no point did anybody say the next FPU generation from either ATI or nvidia would run x86 code, it dies the FPU stuff if it's suitable, and that's it.
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Didn't we move away from one chip handling both graphics and normal processing for a reason? Are we really at a point now where that reason isn't true anymore?
We never moved a away or one chip for all. Both Intel and AMD are set to bring one chip for all solutions the next couple of years or so. There will be a long time before on chip solutions will provide graphics good enough for mid gaming or above. Unless AMD work heavily with ATI. Intel chips will be media accelerator or future larrabee tech.
At no point did anybody say the next FPU generation from either ATI or nvidia would run x86 code, it dies the FPU stuff if it's suitable, and that's it.
I was thinking the same thing that we moved to a modular approach and now it seems we're moving back to an all in one.
Typo: next GPU gemeration*
And does*
Sorry about the typos