Actually, we're at a point where graphics stuff is becoming more relevant to server chips. Especially with more parallelizable workloads being pushed to GPUs fo

Actually, we're at a point where graphics stuff is becoming more relevant to server chips. Especially with more parallelizable workloads being pushed to GPUs for processing, it's interesting to see where the distribution of CPU/GPU focused tasks goes. Of particular note in the world of data analytics, there are some exciting things on the horizon for using GPU cores to accelerate database workloads[0][1]. Of particular interest here is removing the communication overhead between CPU and GPU and avoiding the memory translations necessary to move between GPU VRAM to system RAM. AMD's success in the iGPU market and their HSA design (along with supporting APIs) could be enough to win AMD some market share. [0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5595738 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5595738 [1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8787414 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8787414