Any handheld GPU supports scatter?

[codedivine]

Hey guys .. I am kinda new here and I work with GPGPU on the desktop (primarily CAL but some CUDA from time to time). I have never worked with any of the mobile GPUs and I was wondering whether any of the mobile GPUs (current or upcoming) support scatter.

 

[Arun]

Intuitively I'd say SGX probably does and most or all of the others probably don't. PowerVR initially marketed SGX as capable of video decode/encode, image signal processing, etc. in addition to 3D (although it doesn't look like they got much momentum from that); I'm not sure how you could do some of these things without scatter, although I could be horribly wrong.

However, I also sadly expect that even if it or any other handheld GPU supported scatter today, it likely wouldn't be exposed in the APIs, at least not before OpenCL...

 

[codedivine]

However, I also sadly expect that even if it or any other handheld GPU supported scatter today, it likely wouldn't be exposed in the APIs, at least not before OpenCL...

Thats quite a surprise and indeed a very sad situation if true.
So someone makes a nice hardware and then goes on to NOT expose it to software developers??