Nvidia declares the CPU is dead
The battle between CPU and GPU rages on. According to this article over at The Inquirer, the VP of Sales over at Nvidia has stated the CPU is dead. He states numerous references from this TG Daily articlein his argument that Intel and AMD are crapping in their pants because CPU technologies are a dying breed.
Here’s what he had to say:
“I don’t know how much this will mean to you all but for those that don’t know a war has just started that will likely be written about for years and which will affect everyone who owns a PC. Everyone.
Basically the CPU is dead. Yes, that processor you see advertised everywhere from Intel. Its run out of steam.The fact is that it no longer makes anything run faster. You don’t need a fast one anymore. This is why AMD is in trouble and its why Intel are panicking. They are panicking so much that they have started attacking us. This is because you do still [need] one chip to get faster and faster – the GPU. That GeForce chip. Yes honestly. No I am not making this up. You are my friends and so I am not selling you. This shit is just interesting as hell.
Today your PC plays video (its our chip that makes that work), you play games (its our chip that makes that work), you rip movies (yup our chip again) – you get the picture?”
Although Roy does have a point, the video card takes on a lot of multimedia tasks, but the CPU is needed to execute and run these processes. Unless Nvidia has something up their sleeve where a next generation GPU can also take on these tasks, these accusations and rants are null.