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krumme - Thursday, September 26, 2013 - link You have to remember who said it was low margins:
Nvidia.
Did they see this comming.
Probably yes.
But they didnt have an x86 cpu.
Did amd knew nv didnt have a x86 cpu.
Well yes.
Is amd in a situation where they can do other than earn money for new products?
No.
They dont have any options.
Its good profit for consoles.
Its good profit for gpu.
It did take some years to get here.
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klagermkii - Thursday, September 26, 2013 - link
What the hell, Microsoft? Have you lost so much control of the direction of your platform, that an alternate 3D API like Mantle can even be considered? You brought all the GPU makers in line with DirectX, cementing that as a primary development target and now the situation has deteriorated to this. AMD powering PS4, Xbox One and PCs... give them a common AMD-owned API and THEY become a platform target instead. So much time spent chasing the iPad and Android and all this Metro/Modern nonsense and not defending their desktop foundation.
Five years ago any hope for Steam OS and the idea of Glide 2013 Edition would have sounded insane. Now someone could write games for Mantle that would run faster and could potentially be easily ported over to alternate operating systems like Linux if/when that gets Mantle.
I'm not even a huge fan of Microsoft, but dammit, get up and fight for your standardised platform!