ATI R600 Dx10 GPU - first bits

[Dr Mordrid]

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/11/27/amd_r600_spied_on_web/

Chinese site w/pics: http://vga.zol.com.cn/46/468342.html...hardware.co.uk

[Jammrock]

At this rate my next video card, or fusion CPU/GPU, is going to have 1 trillion transistors on it.

[Helevitia]

Actually, rumour has it, R700 and beyond will all be multi-gpu just like cpu's. This makes sense since powering the R600 is going to take a small nuke reactor.

[Dr Mordrid]

The Fusions can have multiple GPU's on each CPU core. In practice most often it would be 2; one for graphics & one for GPGPU (code execution in the GPU).

[Elie]

I can just imagine the size of future GPGPU's with muliple cores etc, and the amount of power required to drive them.
what I think they need to develop is cube based CPU's for multi dimensional processing hehe

[Dr Mordrid]

Spintronics should fix the heat issue.

Instead of switching a stream of electrons spintronics switches the quantum spin polarization of individual electrons. One advantage over regular transistors is that spin states can be detected & altered without necessarily requiring the application of an electric current.

Right now it's being used in GMR HDD r/w heads and MRAM, but semiconductors (actually dilute magnetic semiconductors) shouldn't be too far out. Right now the focus is on manganese doped gallium nitride.