[ODE] hardware physics chip

[Daniel Monteiro Basso]

I would bet that those new multicore CPUs will render this physics chip
obsolete in no time...

http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/cpu/cell-1.ars


On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 20:19 -0800, Nate W wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, Vrej Melkonian wrote:
> 
> > Is there any proof that it's going to be worthwhile?
> > If it is worthwhile, then Intel, AMD and IBM would
> > have designed a CPU with some "physics" instructions
> > by now.
> > I don't see many people buying an add-on card.
> 
> I'll wager that the people who are buying USD$400 video cards today will
> be lining up to spend a couple hundred on add-on physics cards as soon as
> they're available.
> 
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Daniel Monteiro Basso <dmbasso at inf.ufrgs.br>