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Short term is may seem like a smart move to cut AXG but long term if it’s a must have. All three AMD, nvidia and Apple are unifying general purpose compute wit
by pyrolistical 4y ago
Short term is may seem like a smart move to cut AXG but long term if it’s a must have.
All three AMD, nvidia and Apple are unifying general purpose compute with graphics. That is the direction the world is going. Unless intel had a new arch trick up their sleeves they will be soon made redundant
- barkingcat 4y agosince everyone is on the hybrid computing bandwagon, might as well bring the axg on core and make a xeon with axg on the same package. that's what apple is doing, might as well give that a try.
- nicoburns 4y agoYes, the insight being that “graphics” is actually mostly just highly parallel compute. So if you don’t have a graphics solution then you’re unlikely to have a competitive compute solution either. It’s not quite there yet, but I think it will be soon.
- paulmd 4y agoAnd actually not just graphics but the world is moving towards these highly unified solutions in general, the hardware world is going "full stack" and companies need to be able to offer top-to-bottom solutions that solve the whole problem without relying on someone else's silicon. Same reason NVIDIA wanted to buy ARM. Intel and NVIDIA are in trouble unless they can make that leap. Long-term it's the same reason AMD bought ATI too, that vision just took a long time to come to fruition. Remember, they "acquired" their way to success as well, RTG wasn't something that AMD indigeneously developed themselves either... just like AMD bought Xilinx and Intel bought Altera.