The whole industry is going to heterogenous cores, the concept that you have different kinds of cores that do different types of stuff
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The whole industry is going to heterogenous cores, the concept that you have different kinds of cores that do different types of stuff
You have stuff that does really well when it's massively parallelized and you have stuff that does really, really well when it's more of a serial operation
We see a world where both of them [the CPU and graphics chip] matter, and that's part of why we acquired ATI
With our accelerated computing stuff, we're trying to put a layer in there to shield as best we can the developer from some of those complexities ... Software doesn't move as quickly as hardware, so you've got to start with hardware.
A lot of these high-end usage models start in high-performance computing and make their way down into the mainstream
I think we're on a little bit of a roll here ... 2008 is a much better year for us.