<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 22, 2008 10:55 AM, Steve Smith <<a href="mailto:st3v3.sm1th@gmail.com">st3v3.sm1th@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><span class="gmail_quote">On 22/01/2008, <b class="gmail_sendername">John Drescher</b> <<a href="mailto:drescherjm@gmail.com" target="_blank">drescherjm@gmail.com</a>> wrote:
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">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></span></div></div></blockquote></div></blockquote></div><br>I believe these will be geared to the low power laptop segment at first.
<br><br>John<br>