CPU/GPU tug of war
After the acquisition of graphics card ATI by processors maker AMD for $5.4B and the announcement of GPU/CPU merged processor, the war between graphics cards and CPUs continues.
Graphics card driven by gamers and video console makers are getting insanely powerful and their makers being under pressure of finding new markets necessary for their growth, start to move towards a single offering of CPU/GPU and go head to head with Intel. After AMD/ATI announcement, NVIDIA today announced its Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTX that cost the company $400M and 4 years of R&D. The unit has 128 processors for a total of 680 million transistors, the most complex graphics unit ever developed for a PC. It even has enough instructions set to be uses as a simple main processor unit which is exactly what NVIDIA is going after, the CPU market.Developers can even start programming this GPU using C compiler.
AMD acquisition was necessary to stay in the game of the GPU/CPU and INTEL is said to be working on similar product to be released in 2008. Will Intel play it nicely or will it choose the acquisition solution by buying NVIDA? 
1 comment:
wow,I like the pic !
I have some regret whrn I remember all the graphical card's makers companies who died,and the result is ATI and Nvidia who conqueror almost all the market. I hope that this was will not result in a monopole :-s
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