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Rob Williams
06-01-2006, 11:03 PM
With Torrenza, AMD has designed what it calls an open architecture, based on the next wave of Opteron processors, which allow what AMD calls "Accelerators." Using the add-in accelerators, a system will be capable of peforming specialized calculations similar in fashion to the way we use GPUs today.

Hmm, sounds like the perfect candidate for a PPU. It's too bad it's on an Opteron though, because chances are whatever additions are there, they will not likely affect gaming.

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=2642

madmat
06-02-2006, 12:24 AM
Hmmm...you never know, it could spill over into the FX line.

Jakal
06-02-2006, 02:00 AM
Hmm.. VPU maybe? (ATI acquisition.. video... ) Who knows?