AJCopland wrote:
Oh I ignore the Inquirer, its a joke 
I mean this is the place that think nVidia paid Intel to get SLi support in the X58 chipset! And the article you linked to think that nVidia pulled the same stunt with Sony that they managed with MS on the Xbox1.
Yeah, since Mike Magee left it has gone down hill :-( but they do get a lot of the rumours before anyone else... I'm happy to have a place like that, despite their near perpetual Apple bashing, since there is often a few golden nuggets in there. :-)
Next you'll be believing that Larrabee is an actual threat to ATi+AMD/nVidia GPUs :-D
Actually, if you remember we had a discussion about the future of computer graphics and I am actually in the Real Time Raytracing camp... So I do see Larrabee as a future contender... Actually, I see Larrabee as something like the Cell, but done right... ok, ok that is a very subjective opinion on my part.
Newer NVidia/AMD designs are going to look more like Larabee/Cell in the future, of that I have no doubt.
I wouldn't like to guess what CPUs or GPUs are going to be used for the next-gen but they've certainly already been designing them either in parallel with the current-gen designs or after only a short break. So the idea that they're "about to start" is unlikely :/
Now this I whole heartedly agree with you upon! I would be surprised if the development cycle was less than 5 years and we are expecting new machines in 2010/11...
ARM aren't a desktop CPU either, you can't claim the PPC is dead on the desktop and then suggest that ARM would be good *if* someone did a desktop version.
No, and if you read my posts, you will see that I agree there PPC has had a lot of development work done upon it. Any implementation you can licence now is going to be really well suited to most applications I can think of... but, I'm not sure how much future development work is going to be spent on the PPC ISA... Buying an ARM licence and then optimising it to the task seems more sensible now.
If I was looking to start a new system now, I would have a hard time choosing between either an x86-64 or an ARM... My instincts say go with the ARM... simply due to the Low power implementations...
If its going in an Amiga and you want to maintain compatibility with OS4 etc then its going to be PPC for the time being.
I don't know, since everything that
I want to run is 68k and hardware hitting, the only solution available to me is emulation... in such cases it doesn't matter what CPU is sitting under the hood...
