The year after Doomsyear---2012, ie 2013, Nvidia will provide Maxwell chipset=ARM + Geforce.
No x86 anymore
The "Maxwell" should include 8-16 cores of 2G Hz ARM cpu and more powerful Geforce which can run COD 1.X 2.X....smoothly.
My next desktop will be an "ARM PC",so I wonder how much probability of ARM version COD in future? It seems that oleg may begin to work on this version since "only" 2 year left.
The year after Doomsyear---2012, ie 2013, Nvidia will provide Maxwell chipset=ARM + Geforce.
No x86 anymore
The "Maxwell" should include 8-16 cores of 2G Hz ARM cpu and more powerful Geforce which can run COD 1.X 2.X....smoothly.
My next desktop will be an "ARM PC",so I wonder how much probability of ARM version COD in future? It seems that oleg may begin to work on this version since "only" 2 year left.
No doubt that there is a bit of a shakeup going on in the computing industry. The emergence of tablets and high powered smart phones with dual core (and soon quad) CPUs and more bells and whistles than I could have dreamed of a few years ago. A lot of different and new technology floating around... the old Wintel paradigm is still strong on the desktop and in the laptops/netbooks but anything smaller is pretty much ARM territory.
Oleg's a smart guy... he'll be on top of things if he needs to be. But I think it's very early to say just what will happen. x86 has plenty of fight left in it and although there will be a ARM based Windows it may be a while before the PC world jumps over to it. ARM based Windows will go more in the tablet direction at least in the near term.
Plus the picture there is for their GPU roadmap. That'll be plugging into x86 boards with quite a bit of certainty.
I doubt that much (if any) of CoD is written in assembly language, so using an alternate processor (rather than an alternate OS) is unlikely to need significant changes - just recompilation for C++ etc, and not even that for Java. Personally, I've always liked the RISC approach to CPU design, having programmed (as a hobbyist) with the ARM in its early days in the Acorn systems - It would be nice to see Intel systems finally displaced by a CPU architecture based on a logical design, rather than one that evolved on an ad-hoc basis from a very crude beginning.
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Maxwell=arm+geforce
Don't get too excited about Arm
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<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by AndyJWest:
- It would be nice to see Intel systems finally displaced by a CPU architecture based on a logical design, rather than one that evolved on an ad-hoc basis from a very crude beginning. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>
The future is XMOS (originally known as the Transputer) and with this renewed 'effort' (2-3 years running already) It can 'kill' anything.
I don't eat hats, but pizza is good - place your bets.
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What is this, stuff that can let you play games without having to be restricted to 4GB of RAM or less?
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Let's put it this way...
1) This stuff is already 'penetrating' the cell phone market, giving Arm the 'nudge'
2) When IL2 first appeared on PCs, 2000 I think it was, the same GPU ability was demonstrated with 'transputers',XMOS predecessors in 1990 'ish'
Although XMOS technology is 'slow' at the moment, they just haven't aquired the rights to hi-speed hi-tech yet. This will come very soon...
Essentially XMOS is Hardware-in-Software, IOW you can change your hardware to what you want it to be...
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<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Ba5tard5word:
What is this, stuff that can let you play games without having to be restricted to 4GB of RAM or less? </div></BLOCKQUOTE>
4GB restriction comes with 32bit hardware and OS. Since all CPU's sold now (to my knowledge) are 64bit and as Windows 7 is a very capable OS with the 64bit version installed... 4GB shouldn't be a problem.
The stuff that this thread is talking about is a bit different. There's a new dynamic in the computing world thanks to smart phones and tablets.
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