Why AMD Could Win The Coming Visual Computing Battle 161
Vigile writes "The past week has been rampant with discussion on the new war that is brewing between NVIDIA and Intel, but there was one big player left out of the story: AMD. It would seem that both sides have written this competitor off, but PC Perspective thinks quite the opposite. The company is having financial difficulties, but AMD already has the technologies that both NVIDIA and Intel are striving to build or acquire: mainstream CPU, competitive GPU, high quality IGP solutions and technology for hybrid processing. This article postulates that both Intel and NVIDIA are overlooking a still-competitive opponent, which could turn out to be a drastic mistake."
Re:... vested interest. (Score:5, Funny)
More like zombie visual computing (Score:2, Funny)
Re:they have not "written them off" (Score:3, Funny)
AMD is making a break for the open source arena. I gave Hectar that advice a while ago. Apparently, he was listening in his anonymous drunken stupor on the financial forums. AMD is poised to make a stand in the next 2 to 3 years.
Re:they have not "written them off" (Score:1, Funny)
A-Team (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Monkey See, Monkey Do (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Monkey See, Monkey Do (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Cash Crunch (Score:5, Funny)
They can code name it "Finger cuffs" or something equally dumb.
Yeaah - they'll be using more wafer area than they would like, since the GPU and CPU would still be manufactured separately, but they can probably make up for the additional cost by charging some premium price.
Hell, it would still be cool if you could remove the GPU and drop in another one, or do the same with the CPU. At least by keeping the CPU and GPU so close they could keep the interconnect lengths short, and deviate from the AGP/PCI-E standard. That would have to yield some sort of substantial performance gain.
But then again - I have no experience in the manufacturing of these things, so my 2 cents is worth exactly that. I may have a chance getting in as a wafer handling monkey. As long as I don't have to manually stir wafers in HF, I really don't like that
Re:... vested interest. (Score:2, Funny)
KISS (Score:2, Funny)
Re:More like zombie visual computing (Score:5, Funny)
Re:More like zombie visual computing (Score:3, Funny)