Intel presentation reveals the future of the CPU-GPU war
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Back in February we reported that Intel's Douglas Carmean, new Chief Architect of their Visual Computing Group (VCG) in charge of GPU development at Intel, had been touring universities giving a presentation called "Future CPU Architectures -- The Shift from Traditional Models".
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After a fairly standard review of CPU development over the last thirty years, a serpent is detected in the CPU boys' garden of eden, threatening their supremacy. "CPU profit margins are decreasing. GPU margins are increasing." As the old saying goes, "Follow the money!" and you'll rarely be lead astray. But where has this serpent come from?