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alephnull on 04 September 2008
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Squilliam said:
alephnull said:
Squilliam said:
Rainbird said:
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MrBubbles said:
would this be a good deal for microsoft or are there better options?

They could make Intel give them a pretty nice CPU as part of the deal and get it CHEAP. It would be quite an awesome deal if it did go through for both parties.

Intel gets one of the biggest/best software tool development companies in the world working on their chip and gains mass market adoption. Microsoft gets a cheap deal. So its a win/win if they can agree really.

 

Except it could put Microsoft in the position so well known from the PS3, with complaining developers. And as far as I understood, Larrabee is a combined CPU and GPU..?

 

 

Except Microsoft makes excellent tools and has an awesome developer relations. If they had made it, most likely the tools available in 2005 would have been much better.

This all assumes intel can even make a decent compiler for it. Remember the Itanic?

 

AFAIK it would be Microsoft creating the API, GPUs don't need compilers.

 

Nothing needs a compiler, you can just program everything in assembly. If you saying there are no GPGPU compilers... I don't know how to respond to that. Ever heard of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUDA ? I thought you were a big GPGPU evangelist or something?