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Free software drivers for the Intel 965GM Express Chipset

Free software drivers for the Intel 965GM Express Chipset

Posted May 11, 2007 20:33 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Free software drivers for the Intel 965GM Express Chipset by drag
Parent article: Free software drivers for the Intel 965GM Express Chipset

Sounds more like a Cell's SPUs than anything else to me, only a SPU with
high-speed access to the video controller.


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Free software drivers for the Intel 965GM Express Chipset

Posted May 11, 2007 22:56 UTC (Fri) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]

Well you know, in terms of cpu technology IBM has always lead the pack.

I just hope that Intel does open up everything enough that just your normal average C hacker will be able to make stuff to configure and run on these cores themselves.

It would be a very cool to be able to leverage your video card's proccessing power to do special things like rendering raytracing, or do media encoding and such things. I think that we'd be a lot further along in terms of 3d graphics and virtual environments, also, if it wasn't for these things being so damn proprietary all the time.

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