[geeks] New Itanium machines from SGI

[Chris Byrne]

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> From: geeks-bounces at sunhelp.org 
> [mailto:geeks-bounces at sunhelp.org] On Behalf Of Joshua D Boyd
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> 
> SGIs are nice that way.
> 

And in so many other ways. 

> 
> Programable shaders are definately getting more powerfull.  
> Now if only
> they had something better than AGP in between them and the ram.  


Hear hear. But I don't really think PCI is any better than AGP. It's the
best thing we've got right now so I guess we'll have to make do. 

Honestly I think the next major jump in architecture we're going to see
is a module that has two or more CPU's, the GPU, Sound, the Memory
controller, and the IO controller on a single die (or maybe a single
monobloc with several dies connected in some way) with a(or several)
HUGE cache(s) for all of them. 

I don't think that's necessarily the best way, but Intel is trying to
squeeze ever more revenue out of each box sold, that would certainly be
the way to do it. The single chip pc would have a much higher gross
revenue potential.

Chris Byrne