The CPUs are dead according to NVidia, 2008-04-28 - Your reactions

[crispin]

One remembers that at the beginning of the month, Intel had opened the hostilities with the video board manufacturers by announcing that their hours were counted and that they would be soon useless.
A counter attack by NVidia has been launched. The company declared that the central CPU is died, and that the NVidia chips does the essential of work in a modern machine.
Besides the video, NVidia is refering to its Cuda project that makes it possible to carry out in the GPU many massively parallel calculations with a enormous saving of time.
The company even launched a contest, Cuda Challenge in order to promote to developers this solution.
Of course, we only in the first stage of a war without mercy, full of fizzling pieces of advertisements.
The graphics processors will certainly acquire the statute of CPU coprocessors, at least initially. To know which chip will have the dominating role in a few years, it will be necessary to wait.

[translation by crispin]

[cheerful]

another epic in the making or will it accompany betacam and hd-dvd?