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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 22/01/2008, <b class="gmail_sendername">John Drescher</b> <<a href="mailto:drescherjm@gmail.com">drescherjm@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid">Modern GPUs are just an extension of the same idea, specialized processors designed to excell at graphics processing. Sony have taken this once again to the next level with their PS3 chips (Core chips if I remember the name), which include several GPUs on the same die as the general purpose CPU. (In fact the GPUs are general purpose enough to be used for all sorts of jobs so that physics researchers are using clusters of PS3s as Supercomputers!)
</blockquote></div><br></span>AMD is planning on releasing a CPU/GPU hybrid late this year while Intel has plans for 2009.<br><span class="sg"><br>John<br></span><br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list
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<div>I wonder how big the heatsinks are going to be ? ;-)</div><br> </div>