You realize Raja is just tasked with picking up all the pieces a interesting tidbit's Intel has developed and tried (hold patents on) over the years and will now be sorting through all that and see how it might string together into something that could be brought to a discrete GPU offering (without stepping in Nvidia/AMD proprietary technologies and ending up in litigation) and start making ROI for all of Intel's time and investment. (that's a nice run-on!)
Read the thread pal and realise i know i commented as much after that post
I said in that post , did you read one line.
Play fair dude, this is likely Raja's very first step towards something,
"ie intels present best igpu with hybrid shaders and an fpga added to make up for all thats missing if they don't fit cpu cores and more importantly the rest of its supporting circuitry related to specific purposes ie power control but, the fpga mainly acts as an interface between intels proprietary inter chip interface type and pciex since it's clear the igpu was designed without pciex in mind it makes sense to test what they can expect before scaling up the design, they won't actually make many of these even for themselves, it's a stepping stone chip clear as day."
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The shop bought ones four or five years out imho and certainly won't be a dual chip solution maybe MCM though.
Because that FPGA could possibly be a game changer if used to pump the GPUs core performance intelligently and or to directly affect a new Api for mainstream use case acceleration, intel already do fpga in server so they know it's got legs.
Later on i said this too,
im half expecting something a bit more now I've seen this.
If they leverage the experience they have putting an Fpga to work in the data center they could have a Computer accelerator instead of just a graphics or compute accelerator.
After all the ease of reconfiging FPGAs make them the ultimate possible accelertor of Anything.
This could sidestep any graphics performance gap by increasing common addoption of fpga APIs obviously within direct X.
All chip companies are both diversifying and adopting more modular, many accelerator designs ,an fpga usurps a lot of that in one package so it's only time before we see them in consumer land.
So i clearly get that Raja grabbed whatever was near, it didn't have external connections just inter chip ones so they added an fpga ,which coincidentally could be a viable co processor itself.
Seams another news agro site agrees with me but they have the name of purpose.
Edge computing ,not Gaming per say , that would be a shame.
