Grave news today my friends. According to a letter reportedly sent to The Inquirer by Roy Taylor, VP of content relations at nVidia, the CPU is dead -- and over its steaming corpse nVidia is now free to bellow out a long howl of victory as the powerhouse of PC processing.
I don’t know how much this will mean to you all but for those that don’t know a war has just started that will likely be written about for years and which will affect everyone who owns a PC. Everyone.
Basically the CPU is dead. Yes, that processor you see advertised everywhere from Intel. Its run out of steam. The fact is that it no longer makes anything run faster. You don’t need a fast one anymore. This is why AMD is in trouble and its why Intel are panicking. They are panicking so much that they have started attacking us. This is because you do still [need]
one chip to get faster and faster – the GPU. That GeForce chip. Yes honestly. No
I am not making this up. You are my friends and so I am not selling you.
I**f Intel is panicking it seems a bit more reasonable to assume their anxiety has more to do with Apple's acquisition of P.A. Semi rather than the constant threat of annihilation that nVidia apparently represents. While, in all fairness, a GPU is superior to a CPU in certain aspects, it seems just a tad hasty to call the game just yet.
Nvidia declares the CPU dead [via Boing Boing Gadgets]
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