GPU infighting CPU ten years want to turn positive?

The GPU is a graphics processor, the CPU is a central processor, one is responsible for the graphics image, and the other is responsible for the core data; one is the supporting role and the other is the protagonist. It is estimated that some readers will say that the author is crazy about you and that the two are incomprehensible. What is the reason for the dark war? Isn't it Guan Gong and Qin Qin?

Actually, between the two seemingly not bound, in fact, contains a huge blue ocean.

Intel CPU hits a bottleneck In 2002, in an interview with Wired, Mike Hara, GPU giant's vice president, said: "In the next 10 years, we will grow bigger than Intel." As a result, this sentence makes Intel, a longtime partner, turned his face because Intel, who is a CPU, understands that once the GPU is powerful, it will be very stressful.

The reason is very simple, CPU has a secret has not been widely shared, the current performance of the CPU is mainly achieved by increasing the frequency or improving the architecture, each generation can only increase by 20% to 30%. In other words, unless there is a major technological revolution, it is difficult for the CPU to truly upgrade.

This is exactly what Intel is afraid of. Intel, which started out as a CPU, would have to grab the neck of a potential adversary if it couldn't break through its bottleneck. Why is it necessary to take an Invista attack?

It's equally easy for the GPU to justify the reason, because the GPU can break the CPU bottleneck and increase the computing power by several dozen times. The key to this is surprising. In the early stages of designing, the GPU adopted the “parallel connection” model, and the CPU adopted the “series” approach, just like the parallel and series connection of the electrical appliances, each having its own usefulness, but it was at a critical moment. We must use a certain model to break through. At this moment, the historical opportunity is placed in front of the GPU. Although the graphics processor has always existed as a deputy, its current design level has reached the premise of completing its own work, but also can help the CPU to play an arithmetic and let the energy consumption. Lower and faster.

To put it plainly, the GPU wants to get it right. Just because of this trend, Nvidia and Intel blushed 10 years ago. And 10 years later, the possibility of overtaking is already there.

AMD: APU must be hard at the same time with both hands. In fact, Intel and Nvidia's common rival AMD played a hand that the opponent couldn't play. With the world's only CPU and GPU R&D and production capabilities, AMD has combined the CPU and GPU to create a unique APU. Nvidia and Intel have been fighting for 10 years, and none of them have become winners.

What makes AMD smart is that it doesn't matter to who is the first person, but to put the two together. For this reason, AMD reduced itself to great pressure from the outside world, transformed itself from production, supply and marketing into a research-based company, and used its unique industrial advantages that spanned two types of chips many years ago. , Forge the APU with the concept of “melting together” and put the best combination of performance enhancement directly into a package, achieving 1+1>2, and then the price of 1+1<2. All of a sudden, the history of the GPU's ten years of CPU warfare was ended, and the beginning of the GPU's debut was based on the peculiar but practical product of the APU.

Whether the product is good or bad depends on whether or not the upstream and downstream companies are willing to cooperate. Hardware vendors and software companies have unprecedented levels of support for APUs, including Acer, Asus, Dell, Fujitsu, HP, Lenovo, MSI, Samsung, Sony, Toshiba, etc. The major OEMs within the company have all launched several APU-based PC products. In addition, there are more than 50 leading applications including IE9, Office2010, Adobe Flash Player 10.1, Storm Video Player, and numerous video and photo editing software that support APU acceleration. APU is successful, and the key to success is to seize the pulse of the CPU and GPU and open the chip line.

Intel and Nvidia’s rivals have fought for law for ten years and have been picked up by AMD. However, they are also working hard, Nvidia is trying to improve the GPU's powerful parallel data processing capabilities, Intel is planning to add graphics processing unit in multi-core processors, are all intended to get through the road to integration. Obviously, the future chip wars will become more intense due to no barriers, no barriers, and of course, will eventually benefit consumers. The battle of chips has also entered a whole new realm.