NVIDIA Brings its CUDA Architecture to x86

[Rob Williams]

In a move that's going to surprise, well, almost no one, NVIDIA has announced that it's porting its CUDA programming architecture to x86, which might help blow the doors open for broader adoption. As far as the GPGPU scheme of thing goes, NVIDIA is in a good place, because it's been at the forefront of the technology since the beginning, and that brings on obvious pluses.

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[Tharic-Nar]

Was going to say, but it's in the Ars article anyway, this just seems like Nvidia clawing away, trying to prevent developers from using OpenCL as the heterogeneous programming language of choice. DirectX Vs. OpenGL, now it's CUDA Vs. OpenCL.... will history repeat and choose the closed and proprietary system with more performance than the open equivalent?