Re:Facebook Is Forming a Team to Design Its Own Chips
by twtw on Thursday April 19, 2018 @09:23AM
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... and were completely redesigned starting in the mid-2000s to be good general purpose parallel processors.
Modern GPUs have very little specialized graphics hardware. This doesn't mean there aren't better architectures, but this idea that it's bad cause it's a graphics accelerator is horribly out of date.
Modern GPUs have very little specialized graphics hardware. This doesn't mean there aren't better architectures, but this idea that it's bad cause it's a graphics accelerator is horribly out of date.