"Yousuf Khan" wrote in message
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AirRaid wrote:
http://blogs.mercurynews.com/aei/200...comb.html#more

The Coming Combo Of The CPU And GPU, Ray Tracing Versus Rasterization,
And Why Billions Of Dollars Is At Stake

Kind of a long-winded way of saying GPU's and CPU's might be coming
together, don't you think?

Yousuf Khan


Yep.

But I doubt it will happen. Too much money to be made unless Intel buys
nVidia (since AMD already bought AMD - go figure, I was expecting AMD to buy
nVidia instead since they make chipsets for their CPU's). But either way,
selling GPU's and CPU's separately is a much bigger money maker than
integrating them together. I can see CPU's offering specialty areas on the
chip for basic GPU operations, thus eliminating a need for a separate
onboard GPU chip which would increase revenues. There is a market in the
business industry for basic GPU functions for desktop work, and relegating
that stuff into the CPU would save money by not having to offer a separate
onboard GPU chipset.

But a dedicated GPU will always be needed for intense graphical applications
(especially games). It's just technological progress.