Thank you, Geo.
Sony's study of the Visualizer idea would be interesting to know.
Ken Kutaragi mentioned the limited research they did on the CELL-based GPU.
"One of our ideas was to equip two Cell chips and to use one as a GPU, but we concluded that there were differences between the Cell to be used as a computer chip and as a shader, since a shader should be graphics-specific. The Cell has an architecture where it can do anything, although its SPE can be used to handle things such as displacement mapping."
Toshiba (Sharp 903) can apparently compete very well with nVidia (Sony Ericsson W900i) in graphics processor design if the cellphone sector is any indication.
http://www.jbenchmark.com/result.jsp?benchmark=hd
The PCX, CLX, Neon, Kyro, and MBX graphics processors were all leaders in performance, so no count of the top GPU design companies could be absent Imagination Technologies' PowerVR.
The GPU design sector is not short of competitors: AMD ATi, ARM Mali, DMP Pica, Fujitsu, Imagination Technologies PowerVR, nVidia, SMedia Glamo, Toshiba, UChips Feel3D2000, VirtualDigm Feel3D1000, etc.
Sony's study of the Visualizer idea would be interesting to know.
Ken Kutaragi mentioned the limited research they did on the CELL-based GPU.
"One of our ideas was to equip two Cell chips and to use one as a GPU, but we concluded that there were differences between the Cell to be used as a computer chip and as a shader, since a shader should be graphics-specific. The Cell has an architecture where it can do anything, although its SPE can be used to handle things such as displacement mapping."
Toshiba (Sharp 903) can apparently compete very well with nVidia (Sony Ericsson W900i) in graphics processor design if the cellphone sector is any indication.
http://www.jbenchmark.com/result.jsp?benchmark=hd
The PCX, CLX, Neon, Kyro, and MBX graphics processors were all leaders in performance, so no count of the top GPU design companies could be absent Imagination Technologies' PowerVR.
The GPU design sector is not short of competitors: AMD ATi, ARM Mali, DMP Pica, Fujitsu, Imagination Technologies PowerVR, nVidia, SMedia Glamo, Toshiba, UChips Feel3D2000, VirtualDigm Feel3D1000, etc.