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http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1432998/general-purpose-gpus-rule-earth
By Sylvie Barak
Wednesday, 8 July 2009, 09:24
GENERAL PURPOSE graphics processing units (GPGPUs) should take the market by storm by the fourth quarter of this year, according to analysts, who reckon this trend will boost AMD at the expense of Nvidia and Intel.
As Moore's Law propels the industry, it is becoming common to look to parallel software tools and applications to tap the potential of the multi-threaded, multi-cored microprocessors in PCs, servers and workstations.
Boffins from market research outfit, GC Research, reckon the age of disruptive parallel computing has arrived and has the potential to change the competitive landscape of the industry in a big way. Not that this should come as a surprise, computer scientists and chip firms have been talking about it for several years.
GC reckons that even AMD's purchase of ATI a few years back goes to prove how vital it was, and still is, for Daamit to push towards a more cooperative form of computing, not only for the benefit of consumer multimedia applications, but also for affordable scientific computing.
With both Win 7 and Apple's Snow Leopard due out on Q409, GC says the industry, and consumer market in particular, can prepare itself for a GPGPU explosion.
GC thinks AMD is best placed to take advantage of this trend, because its engineers have expertise in GPUs and CPUs. Of the three big chip firms, AMD would appear uniquely placed to bridge the world of graphics processors and X86 architecture, say GC's beard-strokers.
:: If AMD can deliver very powerful GPGPU based video cards, then they will bulldoze Intel's higher priced CPUs like the Core i7 and even i5s. Who will buy $200-$1000 Core i7 CPUs when they are demolished by a high performance GPGPU from AMD.
By Sylvie Barak
Wednesday, 8 July 2009, 09:24
GENERAL PURPOSE graphics processing units (GPGPUs) should take the market by storm by the fourth quarter of this year, according to analysts, who reckon this trend will boost AMD at the expense of Nvidia and Intel.
As Moore's Law propels the industry, it is becoming common to look to parallel software tools and applications to tap the potential of the multi-threaded, multi-cored microprocessors in PCs, servers and workstations.
Boffins from market research outfit, GC Research, reckon the age of disruptive parallel computing has arrived and has the potential to change the competitive landscape of the industry in a big way. Not that this should come as a surprise, computer scientists and chip firms have been talking about it for several years.
GC reckons that even AMD's purchase of ATI a few years back goes to prove how vital it was, and still is, for Daamit to push towards a more cooperative form of computing, not only for the benefit of consumer multimedia applications, but also for affordable scientific computing.
With both Win 7 and Apple's Snow Leopard due out on Q409, GC says the industry, and consumer market in particular, can prepare itself for a GPGPU explosion.
GC thinks AMD is best placed to take advantage of this trend, because its engineers have expertise in GPUs and CPUs. Of the three big chip firms, AMD would appear uniquely placed to bridge the world of graphics processors and X86 architecture, say GC's beard-strokers.
:: If AMD can deliver very powerful GPGPU based video cards, then they will bulldoze Intel's higher priced CPUs like the Core i7 and even i5s. Who will buy $200-$1000 Core i7 CPUs when they are demolished by a high performance GPGPU from AMD.
