It doesn't seem like anyone here has any kind of inside information on the details of the negotiations or any contracts involved in bringing these consoles to market. So why then then do some complain about a lack of evidence disparaging Intel's ability to provide a console class GPU - taken by...
Yea I understand the ISAs in question fairly well, as I've had to work with SSE2 assembly and intrinsics (and I've glanced at the instructions in AVX, nothing in depth though). What I don't get is where those large multipliers come from, but it's OT anyway so forgive the distraction.
I don't know why you bring up x87 when you mentioned SSE2 vs AVX2. I'm still waiting to hear the cases where AVX2 can give you a 20x speedup over General purpose x86 and 8x over SSE2.
I was under the impression that AMD wasn't planning on launching any "next generation" parts for now and that the 7000 series will be "stable" throughout 2013. According to techreport the 7790 which was recently released is still based on the same architecture as the rest of the 7000 series...
Reminds me a lot of this:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/multimedia/display/20130319235900_Sales_of_PlayStation_4_Xbox_Next_to_Hit_Around_5_Million_in_Total_in_2013.html
The link from above article...
As with any new instruction set, adoption is what is important. Even if processors with AVX2 sell well, they will be dwarfed by the number of pre-existing processors which do not support it and likewise software support will lag. So it will take time for AVX2 to show returns. The advantage to...
Microarchitectures have fixed (probably) internal 'instruction sets' which are essentially architecture specific languages that expose all the functionality of the hardware as they were designed. So if you designed an ALU that can add two registers you would have some internal instruction to...
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