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Originally Posted by mbpark
This is roughly the same technology that NVidia and AMD are already working on (CUDA for NVidia and ATi Stream), and a variation of what IBM has done with PowerPC/Altivec/Cell and their Blue Gene (which run on very low power PowerPC chips) processors.
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If I remember correctly, CUDA is about letting the programmer use the 60 some CPUs inside the video processor to execute complex, multiprocessor programs.
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TW, funny that you mention the CMOS CPU worked on at RCA. My uncle was on that team.
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It was called COSMAC, if I remember. Was he in Somerville NJ?
Back then, RCA was doing breakthrough technologies including CMOS chips that are now standard and required for all computers today. Chips that were necessary for 1970s spacecraft when most semiconductor manufacturers will still using bipolar transistors (ie Texax Instruments TTL). Even Intel eventually gave up on NMOS to convert to CMOS (with help from Harris Semiconductor).
Once designed a car alarm using those RCA cmos integrated circuits. Amazing how much could be done with almost no power.
So when was that CPU team first started? Why did RCA not create a programming development language for it?