Article: Parallelism at HotPar 2010
By: Richard Cownie (tich.delete@this.pobox.com), August 3, 2010 6:22 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
hobold (hobold@vectorizer.org) on 8/3/10 wrote:
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>product quality. To me it seems that Intel, Nvidia, AMD >don't really want an even playing field.
Well, everybody wants things slanted their way. However,
since Intel has dominant marketshare, they can be pretty
sure that people will continue to optimize for Intel
platforms. It's the smaller competitors that are likely
to benefit from software standards, because those may at
least keep them in the game.
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>product quality. To me it seems that Intel, Nvidia, AMD >don't really want an even playing field.
Well, everybody wants things slanted their way. However,
since Intel has dominant marketshare, they can be pretty
sure that people will continue to optimize for Intel
platforms. It's the smaller competitors that are likely
to benefit from software standards, because those may at
least keep them in the game.