It's the gamers that keep intel and AMD alive. They design exclusively just for gamers their CPU's. Any other functionality such as HPC is a side effect of the chip being a good gamer chip.
I guess that's why they don't have 16 real cores yet at intel in their CPU's and still are stuck at 8. On May 9, 2013, at 3:45 AM, Prentice Bisbal wrote: > On 05/08/2013 09:42 AM, Joe Landman wrote: >> On 5/8/13 8:55 AM, atchley tds.net wrote: >> >> [...] >> >>> >>> Also, sales of all consoles are down. The new Wii has hardly made >>> a blip in the market. Some speculate that the era of consoles is >>> past given how many people game on their phones and tablets. >>> >> >> The death of the console has been a nearly constant prediction for >> the last 15-20 years. I heard it back when OpenGL Doom came out, >> and various folks predicted that packaged software would be the >> end of consoles as we know it. >> >> Hence I tend to be skeptical on this possibility, though I have to >> say, I am seeing many more people playing games on their pads and >> phones. I think the consoles will adapt, and you'll see the >> phones become controllers to hook into consoles. > > Things like this always go in cycles. After the Atari 2600, > consoles weren't very popular for quite a few years until the NES > came out and resurrected the market. The gaming market really came > back to life, though, when the PS1 crashed the party in 1995. > > Prentice > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin > Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
