I was reading this interview with AMD's CTO Phil Hester at TG Daily. I really liked how Mr. Hester pointed out that the convergence of GPU and CPU functions into a more tightly integrated platform would enable a lot of applications on a single stand alone machine that previously were limited to systems where multiple machines were handling the workload. He brought up facial recognition, physical interaction, physics modeling among others.
The TG Daily interviewer made the assertion that, "at least in the client space, 64-bit adoption has been almost non-existent and multi-core is also slow to make it's way into the general software space.", and that it would take a considerable length of time before people would actually utilize the technology to bring these tools to the single machine markets.
While this is true for Microsoft platforms there are a lot of users opting for Open Source solutions to bring the exact kind of applications he's talking about to the desktop. Once the Linux and BSD boxes get it, any apple user can use it... and if apple users use it enough then Microsoft has to play catch up.
That's the main reason I went with the AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-64. Fast as hell, and once I'm done, I'll be able to squeeze every single bit out of the 64-bit multi-core options. Linux lets me. Easily. Gentoo lets me make sure every application that can benefit from the progress of AMD's R&D department gets the opportunity to. Not to mention encoding my movies for mobile viewing gets to go as fast as possible. :)
The TG Daily interviewer made the assertion that, "at least in the client space, 64-bit adoption has been almost non-existent and multi-core is also slow to make it's way into the general software space.", and that it would take a considerable length of time before people would actually utilize the technology to bring these tools to the single machine markets.
While this is true for Microsoft platforms there are a lot of users opting for Open Source solutions to bring the exact kind of applications he's talking about to the desktop. Once the Linux and BSD boxes get it, any apple user can use it... and if apple users use it enough then Microsoft has to play catch up.
That's the main reason I went with the AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-64. Fast as hell, and once I'm done, I'll be able to squeeze every single bit out of the 64-bit multi-core options. Linux lets me. Easily. Gentoo lets me make sure every application that can benefit from the progress of AMD's R&D department gets the opportunity to. Not to mention encoding my movies for mobile viewing gets to go as fast as possible. :)
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