The CELL's SPUs can be used as GPUs, pretty good ones aswell. :)

I think CPUs will be on a GPU card before we see any decent GPUs in a CPU...

Larabee is dead and gone and CPU dies are too small too add a significant number of GPU transistors and other features in.

I wish Gigabyte would come into the CPU game though...there is not enough competition. AMD lost 43 million this year despite the 11million DX11 GPUs sold. I can't see them dedicating significant R&D money to things like this when they are just starting to claw their way back into the light in the dedicated GPU department.

They can't converge cause that defeats the whole purpose of having two separate chips. If you have just a CPU it processes the graphics and other functions (A.I., physics, etc). While the GPU specifically processes the visual aspect. The point of separating the two functions is to take the strain of either set of functions off one chip.

The only time I can see this feezable is come the day we make chips that are far more powerful than the processes we require them for.

At the moment, it'll be good for low powered devices aiming for low power consumption. It'll be a long time before we're converging them for performance.

In the article it says the GTX 480 has 512 Cuda cores, in fact it only has 480 cores

Intel Has killed the Larrabee project for now
IBM Has killed the Cell B.E. project
AMD is the only One that has continued the SPE type CPUs

CPU will remain the same like the article says, only AMD changing
GPU if Nvidia has anything to do with it will feature more instruction sets

I believe the GT 500 or GT 600 series by Nvidia will use a GPU that would not require any CPU on board, ultimately creating a new form-factor

dammit a nice article on a good question and only 70° ...

i know this is very technical but come on ...

The Cell is the closest thing the world will ever see to a CPU-GPU unified arhcitecture. It may be "hard" to write good code for, but it the design is still unsurpassed.

I sincerely hope Sony goes with another Cell design for the next PlayStation -- it'll save devs a TON of money in engine development if its similar to the PS3 Cell (only larger scale), and it just cannot be beaten, when the time is taken to make it work well.

Development houses have finally put the time/effort into making good code for the Cell. Sony should leverage that for the PS4, in a big big way. Game consoles are one of the few computing devices that can truly benefit from the unique architecture of a Cell-like design, because they don't have to run crappy legacy code.

Gpus and CPUs will merge and be for oem and shit preformce to make them more money any gamer will always have a true dedicated for easily the bet decade intill technology becomes drastically cooler and smaller

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Tell me again how the multiplatform strategy was supposed to fix everything. Look at your results and compare them to Nintendo, which keeps thriving with exclusives. Your loyal fans are gone. And let’s not forget the pile of IPs you purchased only to let them rot.

The worst thing is this is down from last years numbers/expectations which was down from the previous years numbers/expectations. You think about how long “down” has been a consistent part of the communication and you realize those subscriptions are what’s holding that boat together. The price cut of gamespass is still a price raise in a string of price raises. They are trying to use players to offset the missing revenue. Now call of duty is out of gamespass, which is literally WHY they bought the company. To draw people to the subscription. They realized they missed a boatload of money and that wasn’t sustainable. Now you pay for it like you would have if they never bought the company… so why buy the company? Mind you those billions still need to be paid back. Yeah it gives you a chance to say we make the biggest FPS… but the internal conversations must be brutal at high level on topics that really matter. Like revenue. Profitability. And ROI for the shopping spree.

Is this like the 10th quarter in a row they're down 33% on hardware how is that even mathematically possible. You would think their mediocrity would Plateau