[Wall Street Journal] Lucid HYDRA chip being distributed for customer validation. - Page 4 - Overclock.net

DuckieHo · 09-16-08

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Originally Posted by Cheetos316

I'm surprised that no one has thought to buyout Lucid yet. If the upfront costs saves the driver team more time and money in the long run and it gives the linear performance boost, it might actually be worth it. Plus, buying Lucid out will prevent the competitor from using the technology on their GPUs.

I know this sounds harsh, but that's the corporate (aka selfish) side of me thinking!

You can't just buyout a company.... Especially if their investors think the value of the company will increase in the near future. There might be contracts with the VC firms or copyright transfer restrictions. BTW, Intel is one of the investors in Lucid.

http://lucidlogix.com/about/investors.html

kanman · 09-16-08

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Originally Posted by Cheetos316

I'm surprised that no one has thought to buyout Lucid yet. If the upfront costs saves the driver team more time and money in the long run and it gives the linear performance boost, it might actually be worth it. Plus, buying Lucid out will prevent the competitor from using the technology on their GPUs.

I know this sounds harsh, but that's the corporate (aka selfish) side of me thinking!

which is why Intel has already invested in the company. and if they get exclusive on this you can start kissing AMD\Nvidia chipsets goodbye as far as CF/SLI goas.

Damn Lucid is annoying though I sent them my C.V... they havnt called back yet

, and I wanted to be an "Inside source".

DuckieHo · 09-16-08

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Originally Posted by kanman

you can start kissing AMDNvidia chipsets goodbye as far as CF/SLI goas.

This already came to pass.

Mjolnir · 09-16-08

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Originally Posted by GeNjii-

Oh I know they will still need driver teams but they won't need a dedicated group to write crossfire/sli drivers so many people will be freed to do other things.

Ohhhh, gotcha.

Mjolnir · 09-16-08

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Originally Posted by DuckieHo

Why would they be :turd:ing themselves?

The whole point of CF and SLI is to sell more GPUs. Since both technologies are no longer chipset dependent, the profit is solely with the GPUs. This technology will only increase the demand for multiple GPUs.

Not to mention, linear scaling makes for a nice sales point.

Porthios · 09-17-08

So if this could scale to thousands of graphics cards, then CGI movies could theoretically, according to HYDRA developers, be processed in real time...

Yeah, suffice to say that I'll believe it when I see it.

low strife · 09-17-08

This could make them millions.

Epic breakthrough.

Edit: LOL @ the filter blocking martetw5tch.

Flatliner · 09-17-08

so its kind of like what they are doing with ppu's. Except instead of using the second card for physics, I'd is actually helping pump out more power. Cool. Bet these boards won't be cheap.

Brutuz · 09-17-08

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Originally Posted by Flatliner

so its kind of like what they are doing with ppu's. Except instead of using the second card for physics, I'd is actually helping pump out more power. Cool. Bet these boards won't be cheap.

It goes onto the motherboard, not a seperate thing afaik.

Henry_John_Scott · 09-17-08

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Originally Posted by Brutuz

It goes onto the motherboard, not a seperate thing afaik.

It puts the lotion on its skin.

I think they will come in both embedded and add-in card solutions.. there's a paragraph or two in the article that talks about how the cards will be PCIe1.0 to start, but be able to output at PCIe2.0 bandwidths (don't ask me how)

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