If you watch the actual video of the CES speech (http://www.cesweb.org/sessions/IndustryInsiders.asp and click "Watch the Video"), the point they seemed to be making at the end of the presentation was that some applications people have said can't be done "in the cloud" actually may have a solution using GPU computing done server-side. That opens up new customer avenues for cell phones or netbooks or other non-3D heavy devices to get full 3D experiences via just a browser, which is what the EA guy talked about.
I didn't see anything Dirk Meyer said at CES that indicated the GPU or CPU is going away anytime soon, though, even with the "fusion cloud" supercomputer concept in place. He did the opposite, in fact, talking up AMD's position as the only supplier of both CPUs and GPUs and how that brought about the Dragon and Yukon stuff they showed from Dell and HP
The Lightstage stuff showing how they made digital characters out of real actors for Hancock and Spiderman III was pretty interesting as well. It did drag in parts and came off like a sales presentation when Dell and HP were on stage, though, so you might want to skip ahead if you watch the video.
I didn't see anything Dirk Meyer said at CES that indicated the GPU or CPU is going away anytime soon, though, even with the "fusion cloud" supercomputer concept in place. He did the opposite, in fact, talking up AMD's position as the only supplier of both CPUs and GPUs and how that brought about the Dragon and Yukon stuff they showed from Dell and HP
The Lightstage stuff showing how they made digital characters out of real actors for Hancock and Spiderman III was pretty interesting as well. It did drag in parts and came off like a sales presentation when Dell and HP were on stage, though, so you might want to skip ahead if you watch the video.
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