John Carmack doesn't believe in PPUs? Fine, then PPUs don't believe in John Carmack

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Bennett @ Jul 23rd 2007 10:23PM

"multiple CPU cores will be much more useful in general"

I don't see how Ageia/Forster can argue this point at all. CPUs are by design general-purpose processing units. PPUs are by design highly specialized super-fast math crunchers. Thus, multi-core CPUs should in fact be much more useful in general.

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