Yawn.

You can get a consumer card that does 100GFlops today for about $350. It's called a 7800GT.

Clearspeed's advantage is in software and marketing. Their hardware advantage is only in wattage.

There IS a great potential for raw FP power. Physics accelerators included.. but the raw power of graphics cards is where that power will converge. It is NOT in branching out into more diverse hardware, it is in generalizing and converging to the cheap and powerful, accessable, hardware.

I wonder what this will do for folding :)

If I were AMD and IBM I would spin-off IBM Microelectronics (still it's name?) and merge it with AMD. They are already cooperating on a lot of areas and you have to have more fabs to compete with Intel.

K8 + POWER + PowerPC derivatives vs. P6 (Pentium M+Conroe) + Itanium + XScale

Perhaps AMD are hoping this company can provide them with the basis for an "Emergency Edition" which they are gonna need come July....

Back to the future! Remember the math co-processor with the i286? I wonder if AMD will have a co-processor specific socket or put it on the CPU package.

Here is the old news for people btw:

http://www.tgdaily.com/2005/06/20/co/

And the card is around 10000$, so dont expect this to come in some cheap desktop CPU.

The singlecore 1 FPU unis with half the performance (1/8th of that board) costed 975$

How general purpose are these kind of cards? Could they speed up games or do physics calculations as well or is this just for rendering and other very specific things?

x86 software makers will have to start from the beginning to use 96 cores at the same time.

links broken for me

( http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2006/03/15/37936/Clearspe... )