Submission + - Intel guns for parallel processing, graphics
Dr. Damage writes: Last week's Intel Developer Forum didn't produce any major announcements because it wasn't focused on imminent new products. But quietly, in a number of small ways, we saw something further off, but more significant, coalesce: the future of Intel CPU technology is increasingly about highly parallel floating-point processing, whether it be via multicore processors, SSE4, application-specific accelerators, new types of coprocessors, or massively parallel chips with huge 'tiles' of execution resources offering teraflops of power for scientific computing, multimedia, physics, or — Intel appears to be especially sweet on this one — graphics. Could future tera-scale CPUs challenge GPUs for dominance?
