Article: Parallelism at HotPar 2010
By: Ricardo B (ricardo.b.delete@this.xxxx.xx), August 4, 2010 1:16 pm
Room: Moderated Discussions
>Without arguing whether or not the sub-$100 GPU market can vanish and be replaced
>by on-chip GPUs, does anyone have a feel for this question:
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>-Mark Roulo
I think so; I think the sub-$100 discrete market is somewhat small nowadays, since Intel took the "low end" years ago.
Intel accounts for some 50% of shipped GPUs nowadays..
If nvidia is still alive, I think they'll make it without that market.
>by on-chip GPUs, does anyone have a feel for this question:
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>If the sub-$100 discrete GPU market goes away, can nVidia survive on the high
>end (and, I suppose, embedded) chips alone? Or do they need the volume of the low
>end to justify the ongoing development?
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>-Mark Roulo
I think so; I think the sub-$100 discrete market is somewhat small nowadays, since Intel took the "low end" years ago.
Intel accounts for some 50% of shipped GPUs nowadays..
If nvidia is still alive, I think they'll make it without that market.