AMD mods graphics chip for high performance data-crunching
AMD converts expensive graphics
into expensive floating point doodad.
Advanced Micro Devices launched a new graphics chip
on Thursday modified to crunch huge amounts of data, with potential customers in
financial, engineering and scientific
industries.
The new product, called FireStream, gives AMD an answer to a similar initiative launched by rival Nvidia this year to find broader uses for increasingly powerful graphics chips.
FireStream is also a stepping stone to a major AMD project called Fusion that aims to combine a graphics processor on the same piece of silicon as a central processor by early 2009, a change that could lead to better-performing laptops.
The first customer looks to be HP. Aiming at medical and scientific resellers.
Starting price for the card? $1999.
The new product, called FireStream, gives AMD an answer to a similar initiative launched by rival Nvidia this year to find broader uses for increasingly powerful graphics chips.
FireStream is also a stepping stone to a major AMD project called Fusion that aims to combine a graphics processor on the same piece of silicon as a central processor by early 2009, a change that could lead to better-performing laptops.
The first customer looks to be HP. Aiming at medical and scientific resellers.
Starting price for the card? $1999.
Posted: Fri - November 9, 2007 at 06:35 AM