PC World.com Writes:
"The future will bring many more common tasks that are currently relegated to higher-end servers and mainframes to individual PCs, including dramatically improved abilities to extract data from large databases, improved business intelligence calculations, enhanced security capabilities and improved visualization of all forms of data.
We expect the biggest loser in this market change to be Nvidia. While it makes excellent graphics subsystems now, the lack of a fully compatible i86 CPU core to integrate its graphics with will put it in a difficult situation, and it will be forced out of all but the highest-end graphics subsystems. We expect this discrete graphics market to represent 5% to 10% of the market. Intel and AMD will dominate the remainder with their integrated platforms, although we expect Intel to take the majority (75% to 85%) of this market."
The Fallout 4 next-gen update is now live, bringing with it improved performance and visuals, as well as brand-new exclusive content. This new update brings the latest single-player entry in the series up to modern standards, with it also marking an official PS5 release of Fallout 4.
"The German-Austrian-based indie games publisher Toplitz Productions and indie games developer Game Island, are today super happy and excited to announce that they have just kicked-off an playtest period for their first-person survival/adventure game “Serum“ (the said playtest is live right now for PC via Steam)." - Jonas Ek, TGG.
"The Watford-based /(the UK) indie games publisher Wired Productions and Shanghai-based (China) indie games developer POLLARD STUDIO, are today very happy and excited to announce that their psychological thriller "Karma: The Dark World", is now currently in development for PC (as announced during the Wired Direct 2024 live event)." - Jonas Ek, TGG.
Recently Nvidia announced they were working on their own x86 platform, which renders a part of this argument obsolete already.
The confidence in Larabee is also overblown.
However, ATI, Intel and Nvidia should all try to bring up a working unified architecture and sell it to console makers.
A unified CPU/GPU would allow next gen of console to start strong with a single, insanely potent, processor.
Sweet, now I can look at porn faster than ever before.
yeahhhhhhhhh
I hate it when people say that. Today's personal computers are as powerful as super computers were. Tomorrows personal computer may become as powerful as supercomputers are now, but at that point super computers will far exceed home PCs.
And what's all that power good for ? I mean besides gaming...