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The future

Orangey

Orangey

Orangey

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Lately I have been thinking about what's going to happen when silicon reaches the end of its rope. AMD & NV are already swimming upstream with these tiny lithography processes (20nm), TSMC employees must be ridden with stomach ulcers and other stress-related illnesses. The IP that goes in to making GPUs has been built up over decades and it's very hard if not impossible for a new player to enter the market.

But when silicon is replaced, will that mean a fresh start? Will there be a gold rush of new GPU companies? It's very sad to think we might just have 2 companies or go down to 1 for the rest of time.
 
Don't GPUs technically already have thousands of "cores"? :p

IIRC that's what some were calling SPs/shaders back when they were new. I would liken a dual-GPU card to a dual-socket mobo. Of course with 16nm and chip stacking etc things could change significantly, we might not recognize a graphics card from 2020 if we saw it today.
 
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