AMD or advanced micro devices is making a major change to its Graphic processor (GPU) design . Gone are the days of pipeline stuff ILP instruction. This one makes it more similar to a set of parallel independent processing units (SIMD) if you prefer . Read about it here in the link below
Note : what AMD have done here isnt revolutionary. Nvidia had changed their graphics architecture similar to this way back in 2009 called the "Fermi" architecture . Both of the companies have realised that moving away from VLIW and into SIMD processing is the future for a better balance of Gaming / Computational abilities
< again read the above mentioned article > . Its a bit of a drab , but for those really interested in all this stuff like hardware , parallel processing etc etc , it will be fun .
And for guys / girls wanting to know what Fermi is
again another excellent article.
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