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Re: [News] AMD to Unify GPU and CPU

__/ [ Ian Hilliard ] on Tuesday 15 August 2006 17:52 \__

> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> 
>> Will this affect Linux users by forcing them to accept crippled ATi
>> Drivers?
>> 
>> AMD-ATI to make a GPU on a CPU
>> 
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Engineers from AMD and ATI companies are going to start working on a
>> | unified chip that will have GPU and CPU on a same silicon. We learned
>> | this from high ranking sources close to the companies, more than once.
>> `----
>> 
>>                        
> http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33678
> 
> As I see it, one of three things is going to happen.
> 
> 1) The flakey driver will have to be rewritten. At the moment, that does
> seem to be beyond ATI.
> 
> 2) The drivers are open-sourced and the open source community gets them
> running correctly. There is probably a lot of pressure from other, such as
> a certain company in Redmond, not to do that.
> 
> 3) AMD loses support from the Linux community and their sales sag. AMD
> would be forced to only support Windows, where support for 64-bit computing
> is less than brilliant.
> 
> I'm sure that Intel would love to see them take option 3.

Intel has got its own problems with the Linux community. Even the extent to
which its graphics drivers will be opened is now being questioned. Either
way, if Intel could appeal to the niche (Linux /et al/) now that AMD
absorbed a relatively OSS-hostile company (NVidia at least delivers good
performance), the benefit will be wholly theirs. The bigger the niche
becomes (a non-linear function of growth versus time), the harder it will be
to ignore.

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