AMD's 'Revolution' will be televised ... if its CPU-GPU frankenchip Kaveri is a hit

The Register ^ | 14 Jan 2014 | By Rik Myslewski,

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Try AMD Eyefinity.

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I’m on my way to check it out.

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I keep finding articles that tell me about stuff on this chip.,...just hit this one:

AMD A10-7850K Kaveri APU review - Performance - DXVA Acceleration & Enhancing MKV 1080P Video

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Guess the article starts with this limk:

http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/amd_a10_7850k_apu_review.html

20 pages...may read it fully tomorrow.

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One of the things I've been waiting for in the general computing world is to have cpus that are programmable on the fly (ASICS?), so you could have one programmed to be a compute core for encryption, one for DSP or something, maybe one for some graphics, etc as you need them.

Operating systems would have to be built to specifically take advantage, but I could easily see Linux being up to the task. Something like a modprobe could load up pre-defined cpu instances for tasks rather than simply modules. Rather than loading a program, you'd load a CPU. There are all kinds of things you could do with a system that was flexible enough.

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I am not up on Displayport but just came adcross this :

EVGA releases DisplayPort Hub by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 12/18/2013 08:29 AM | Source | 0 comment(s) ]