AMD Torrenza and Co-Processors

[krazykarl]

“Torrenza represents the industry’s first open, customer-centric x86 innovation platform, capitalizing on the Direct Connect Architecture and HyperTransport advantages of the AMD64 architecture to enable other processor and hardware providers to innovate within a common ecosystem. Torrenza” will enable a global innovation community to develop and deploy application-specific co-processors to work alongside AMD processors in multi-socket systems,”

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/dis...607074412.html

This could be a boon for people like me who like hardware for everything, I for one am hoping that this will encourage someone to make an AI coprocessor, as one of the reasons mosts games have limited AI, is that certian algorithims are very complex and would totally drain all of your CPU power, making playing the game impossible. If this logic could be put into hardware I bet we would see much better game AI. I am a big fan of hardware everything so I am very interested to see what AMD can do on this front. I think the first coprocessors to come out will have to do with TCP/IP acceleration and data encryption.

[Incinerate_IV]

This is for servers only, and, as with everything thats built for servers, it's probably going to cost a lot. I don't get why they try to develop this when we already got dual core, and quad core coming soon.