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NVIDIA to Acquire AGEIA Technologies -- PhysX PPU on Future GeForce GPUs ?
sprite scaler writes:
SANTA CLARA, CA -- FEBRUARY 4, 2008--NVIDIA the world leader in visual computing technologies and the inventor of the GPU, today announced Geez, I know that press releases are 90% meaning-free bullcrap, but "inventor of the GPU"?!? -Miles -- Omochiroi! |
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NVIDIA to Acquire AGEIA Technologies -- PhysX PPU on Future GeForce GPUs ?
Back in the Geforce1 days, nVidia's marketing dept was the first to brand
its graphics chip a "GPU". Of course, to keep up, ATi subsequently "invented" the VPU. I think video card marketing has matured a bit since the days of the Hercules Terminator Beast... -- "War is the continuation of politics by other means. It can therefore be said that politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed." "Miles Bader" wrote in message ... sprite scaler writes: SANTA CLARA, CA -- FEBRUARY 4, 2008--NVIDIA the world leader in visual computing technologies and the inventor of the GPU, today announced Geez, I know that press releases are 90% meaning-free bullcrap, but "inventor of the GPU"?!? -Miles |
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NVIDIA to Acquire AGEIA Technologies -- PhysX PPU on Future GeForce GPUs ?
On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 20:43:11 -0500, "First of One"
wrote: Back in the Geforce1 days, nVidia's marketing dept was the first to brand its graphics chip a "GPU". Of course, to keep up, ATi subsequently "invented" the VPU. I think video card marketing has matured a bit since the days of the Hercules Terminator Beast... As evidenced by new graphics cards with pictures of stippers and lunatics on them. |
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NVIDIA to Acquire AGEIA Technologies -- PhysX PPU on FutureGeForce GPUs ?
sprite scaler wrote:
On Feb 4, 7:05 pm, Miles Bader wrote: sprite scaler writes: SANTA CLARA, CA -- FEBRUARY 4, 2008--NVIDIA the world leader in visual computing technologies and the inventor of the GPU, today announced Geez, I know that press releases are 90% meaning-free bullcrap, but "inventor of the GPU"?!? -Miles -- Omochiroi! I absolutely agree with your questioning Nvidia as "inventor of the GPU". Nvidia invented their definition of the GPU. Their only "leg to stand on" so to speak, is that they were the first to introduce a *consumer* 3D graphics chip with on-chip geometry processor / T&L. There were professional / industrial / arcade / etc. graphics cards/boards with on-board polygon processors / geometry engines / T&L since the early to mid 1990s (probably in the 80s even). It's not unlike say, 3Dfx before them claiming they invented desktop 3D graphics. Yeah I am sorry I didn't edit-out the bullcrap. I'll go further and give the credit to Jim Clark of SGI way back in 1982. Their chip had the first geometry set up engine, which is the essence of what we call 3D graphics. The programming language of those early SGI chips was polished and revised and is in use still today, but we know it as OpenGL. If Nvidia wishes to lay claim of "inventor of the GPU" they might be referring us to their legal department, whereas holders of the defunct 3Dfx intellectual property patents (3Dfx was SGI's and the consumer markets love-child), they might have a stamped certificate that bestows that title on their business indirectly. Somewhat like buying an Academy Award on ebay. |
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