The CPU redefined: AMD Torrenza and Intel CSI

This doesn't seem new to me, it's the industry coming back around to roots.
Didn't the Amiga have this back in 1983?

Enjoyed the article. But please, please spell check and proof read. It was really distracting.

This sentence gave me a headache:

"With al the GPU's, APU's, PPU's and AIPU's we can definitely say that the Personal Computer has become more powerful and diverse than ever before, but the flipside of this is that we have to look critically at how we implement these various innovations within a PC: using only the PCI- and PCI-Express-bus for expansion cards with specialised processors is not exactly efficient by any means...."

Otherwise keep up the good work.

Its the same basic principle. The Commodore Amiga had 3 co-processors, each doing different tasks, so that the processor wouldn't fumble with I/O. I think the big thing here is that this new way allows you to 'plug' them in individually as opposed to them being embedded. That way you can buy a base motherboard, a CPU, and a couple co-processors, and be able to use the co-processors in whatever fashion you want.


I agree with jonatj, some editing would be nice, otherwise good article.

Jay Miner and a handful of others propably had some early prototypes, considering Amiga1000 was released in 1985. (development started in 1982)

The C64 on the other hand:
1. SID and VIC

2. certain floppy drives had a compatible but faster processors than the machine itself, and certain exploited that fact.

Koen Crijns, just going to take the time to
thank you for your magnificent article.

pardon my English,.

Being a Physicist your article has some deep insightful hints
as what to expect in the near future. Very well poethicaly written.

thanks,

Joel Rodriguez, PH.D.
ensenada, M'exico