dailytech.com — "Specialized cores are inevitable for one simple reason. If you design a chip for a specific task, the same number of transistors can perform that task 10-100x faster or more. These kind of performance gains can't be ignored. Why not include some cores designed specifically to run certain applications?"
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maninblac1Aug 11, 2006
They already do in machines like that, the primary processor market for specialized processors is taken by Texas Instruments, TI has more chips in devices than ATI, Nvidia, Intel, AMD, IBM and Motorola combined, ~roughly. TI specializes in specialized.
klbclemAug 11, 2006
Sometimes intel is better sometimes AMD is better get over it kids; it's like saying that michael jordan is the greatest basketball player there will _ever_ be, competition raises the bar on sports just as much as it raises the bar on CPUs
klbclemAug 11, 2006
Actually all procs in recent history do have a (albeit miniscule) portion of the processor that uses a dynamically rewritable FPGA structure. This is to allow chip manufacturers to fix bugs in the processor after fabrication and thereby avoiding scraping the previously defective processors. Also the DRC technology (as currently stated) will be obsolete as soon as AMD releases its HyperTransport port, thats right an actuall port (think pci-e style) that has 75ns latency and MASSIVE bandwidth that ties almost _directly_ into the proc. multicore GPUs here we come!!!
losboccaccAug 11, 2006
If I remember correctly, that was the design principle behind ataria and atari II....but was throw away as the ibm pc are more conveniently built around a central generalized core and thus lesser expensive for the final customer.... now who said that the ageia physX is cheap??still no way to go for decentralized architecture....
jimxugleAug 11, 2006
open source it.