The Future of Graphics Hardware

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Integration?(Relative Die Sizes, 65nm normalized)

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PC 2008

4-8 GPUs, 16-32 CPU cores… integrated?

906mm^2 in 45nm. Who wants to build it?

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How About… Dis-Integration?

More specialization of devicesMore types of devicesMore performance scaling – unlimited demand

Distributed, client-server architectureDistribute functionsGraphics everywhere: on display, mobile devices, serversCompute everywhere: on display, mobile devices, servers

Integration happens when you’re done innovatingCommoditization

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Whither Graphics Hardware (GH)

Be more relevant

Make GH a respectable publication venue for morefields

GH is not just about Hardware for GraphicsThat’s too narrowGH should also be about

AlgorithmsApproachesEnabling other fields