[Open-graphics] CPU on graphics card]

[Simon]

On 4/18/07, Hugh Fisher <hugh.fisher at anu.edu.au> wrote:
> > However, the resulting graphics chip would be needlessly expensive,
> > and unpopular as a result.
>
> And just how cheap is a custom-designed floating point
> capable parallel SIMD ALU going to be? nVidia and ATI
> (er, AMD/ATI) have truckloads of money to invest in
> design and fabbing. OGF doesn't.

Regardless of the cost of designing a better solution, my point is
that using a general purpose CPU is likely to be infeasible, because
the price will be too unattractive for the hardware to be profitable.