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Read this article about the latest developments in GPUs for mobile devices

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15668347

I was quite impressed by the comment made by Ian Smythe, ARM's marketing director:

"Reproducing a CGI movie - which is generated on a server farm where it takes a day to render a frame with 50,000 processors - being able to reproduce that in a mobile experience is clearly a challenge."

What has the rendering process got to do with playback of a HD video file?

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Read this article about the latest developments in GPUs for mobile devices

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15668347

I was quite impressed by the comment made by Ian Smythe, ARM's marketing director:

"Reproducing a CGI movie - which is generated on a server farm where it takes a day to render a frame with 50,000 processors - being able to reproduce that in a mobile experience is clearly a challenge."

What has the rendering process got to do with playback of a HD video file?

That's kind of what I am thinking. I can only think it's to do with high quality graphics in game. Though if a GPU can do the job of 50,000 processors in a rendering farm, then what the [LIFTED] is Peter Jackson clinging on to WETA for? He could do the next Tintin film on a phone.

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Misread this as 'Don't you just love musketeers'. :?

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adidan wrote:
Misread this as 'Don't you just love musketeers'. :?

I read it as "Don't you just love meerkats?"

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