Intel Sues Nvidia Over Chipset License
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Rastalovich
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Intel are worried about the "gpu", as it were, becoming more than just the graphics processor and indeed doing the general cpu stuff too.
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I wouldn`t put it passed some1 to build a pc with an average mobo & cpu, sticking 2 graphic cards in the pcie slots, and installing a linux flavor that will use gpu0 for the cpu and gpu1 for the graphics - merely using the regular cpu to boot.
... any old crappy p4/amd whatever.
Spank an i7. Show us all really how poor a service Intel have given to computing over the last 20 years, and making others hold onto the old tech.
... any old crappy p4/amd whatever.
Spank an i7. Show us all really how poor a service Intel have given to computing over the last 20 years, and making others hold onto the old tech.
name='Luigi' said:GPU's can only do specialised apps, so that wouldnt work afaik
No one said that GPUs can't be turned into CPU replacement.
I can see in 10 years that Intel and nVidia fighting while AMD sits in the side line.
Kinda reminds me of the current console war lol.
Rastalovich
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name='Luigi' said:GPU's can only do specialised apps, so that wouldnt work afaik
Linux can be installed on ur toaster, or atleast some kid in some bedroom would find a way for u to do it.
Only thing really, apart from the native instruction set, would be the mmx/sse1/2/3 etc Cos of the machine language change, u'd have to run the likes of windows through another compile - I don't see microsoft being able to undertake that tbh. Some1 like sun/ibm probably could, and if linux works on such an item, apple wouldn't be that far behind in their current state.
Emulate the things afaic, until it goes native, they'd still be faster.
name='zak4994' said:
If I were nVidia, I'd work with AMD to allow them to dev their ATI cards in parallel.
nVidia know they have more raw power in terms of not merely being a DirectX player.
.. or atleast wave that threat in the face of Intel if they continue to act up.
I don't see nVidia currently slapping Intel cos they sell grossly overpriced cpus. How are Intel gonna like it when they can't compete ?
SwaleSmith
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basically seems like intel is ****ed, they seem to feel nvidia is a threat to them.
Rastalovich
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Personally I'd like nothing more than to see the death of x86 as a machine language. It was never the better of the options available and managing to clock the things as fast as u can to get the jobs done was a cop-out to computing.
Blessing to cooling manufacturers.
Blessing to cooling manufacturers.
Yeah, a reread clarifies that a bit. Still means that either intel lose and nothing happens, or intel win and Nvidia pay more. I don't see nvidia making their on processors (yet) but this seems to be pretty anti competitionist by intel, so I wonder if we won't see a counter suit by Nvidia (depending on the outcome of this case) saying that the chipset licensing is anti competition...
Can't be good in the long run tho
Can't be good in the long run tho
name='Diablo' said:Yeah, a reread clarifies that a bit. Still means that either intel lose and nothing happens, or intel win and Nvidia pay more. I don't see nvidia making their on processors (yet) but this seems to be pretty anti competitionist by intel, so I wonder if we won't see a counter suit by Nvidia (depending on the outcome of this case) saying that the chipset licensing is anti competition...
Can't be good in the long run tho
yeah i agree with you. Will have to wait to see what the outcome is.
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