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Originally Posted by Scratch  I have heard through a discreet source that Intel is in the works to purchase NVidea. |
There've been rumours circulating about that since AMD bought out ATI. I personally don't know what that would do to AMD.
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Originally Posted by tzetsin Yeah, the way programmers are complaining about the complexity of multiple threads with just 4 processors... i cant imagine what they would do if they were expected to use 128... Im pretty sure they would need to come up with an entirely new programming language just to accomadate it. I'm not a programmer by any stretch of the imagination, but even i could see how it would get down right confusing trying to follow all those threads, But at the same time, they are somehow able to use the full capability of the gpu with games... perhaps we just need an OS that can dynamically define different threads of a processor to different functions of a piece of software, even without the software being muli threaded. Think of a raid array, the raid controller can split the data, store it and rebuild it with a good deal greater performance than a single hard drive, all without any "knowlage" of the rest of the computer or the software. what if there was some kind of embedded cpu/gpu controller that could split the incoming processes and rebuild them on the other side, then we wouldnt have any need to change the way we write software at all because all the multi threading would be done on the hardware. |
Most programs don't even work well with dual core CPU's, so something would have to be done to be able to use all the cores. Programmers wouldn't want to have to make 100-threaded programs. CAD programs support a lot of threads, but it's would be different making, say, a game with that many threads.