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Re:Intel Publishes Microcode Patches, No Benchmarking or Com... by oarsinsync on Thursday August 23, 2018 @07:58AM (#17826452)
Dedicated GPUs were not required historically to drive displays, and this was done by the CPU instead.

Similarly, we’re finding more functions we can take away from the CPU and migrate to dedicated circuitry (FPGAs) that can handle those tasks more efficiently than the CPU can.

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Re:Intel Publishes Microcode Patches, No Benchmarking or Com... by Retric on Thursday August 23, 2018 @01:37PM (#17829128)
dedicated circuitry != FPGAs.

GPU's avoid the overhead of FPGAs while still retaining a lot of flexibility.

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