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I would really like to explore a workstation with one of these and nothing else.

We need more diversity on the hardware side and see what we can build on it.



We’re not long before an explosion of GPU like processors from hardware startups trying to dethrone nvidia

Massive parallelization is in right now


I often think what an Amiga for today would look like, something different from the computers we usually have. One with just a GPU-like processor doing everything, exploiting massive software parallelism instead of dedicated chips would fit this description.


I think you’d still need a CPU.

The way GPUs and CPUs work are so different. I’d be surprised if you could have a usable computer with just GPUs without turning it into a CPU or having it effectively be single threaded.


Kind of. Remember the RPis are brought up by their GPU before the ARM cores become active.




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