Tuesday, September 26th 2006
“Merged” CPU-GPU in 2008, Says AMD Chief Technologist
A CPU with an integrated graphics core should become reality in 2008, according to AMD. The CPU will be manufactured using 45nm technology.
"Integration of the CPU and the GPU. Assuming the transaction closes on time, we would target a merged design in the 45nm time frame," said Phil Hester of AMD. Mr. Hester explained that the trends in the development of graphics processors increased programmability: "We've crossed the point where the GPU can do real programs of a significant size," he said. He then re-iterated the point made earlier by another AMD representative in an interview with AMD and said that the first CPU-GPU will come around 2008.
"It may seem like 2008 is a long way away, but that's actually a major design cycle," Mr. Hester said.
Source:
X-bit labs
"Integration of the CPU and the GPU. Assuming the transaction closes on time, we would target a merged design in the 45nm time frame," said Phil Hester of AMD. Mr. Hester explained that the trends in the development of graphics processors increased programmability: "We've crossed the point where the GPU can do real programs of a significant size," he said. He then re-iterated the point made earlier by another AMD representative in an interview with AMD and said that the first CPU-GPU will come around 2008.
"It may seem like 2008 is a long way away, but that's actually a major design cycle," Mr. Hester said.
28 Comments on “Merged” CPU-GPU in 2008, Says AMD Chief Technologist
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Not gonna fly on air cooling. However, you will never reach dedicated GPU speeds because it would have to utilize the cpu's memory- in this case, low end DDR2. Maybe DDR3.
GPU's are moving on to GDDR4 already...
they cannot push high end GPU's onto cpu's simply because of performance, even if they do manage to keep the heat down. its just not there!
As to everyone else that's saying this will be a piece of junk, just remember that gaming drives the industry. I don't think they will do anything to jeopardize that. Besides, what kind of internal bus system will be used on this? It is probably going to be something fast, with a whole lot of bandwidth, and have very low latency between the two. How many people are out there running a top of the line CPU and a crappy video card? How many are running a great vid card and a slow-ass CPU? I don't think either company would want to risk upsetting the gaming community by putting out junk ...