I don't understand complaints about delays. Would you rather have them put out a beta like current games are being foisted on us and patched to death (BF4, Watchdogs, etc etc)? I'd rather have you make the OS and controller WORK properly before handing it to me which was the ENTIRE point of the beta machines they put out for testing. Get FEEDBACK, FIX whatever, then roll out the product as polished as can be. It will push linux gaming up a bunch though and also OpenGL at the same time. I said this ages ago when they mentioned these, and now it looks like we're about 6-12 months away. The real interesting day will be when Valve announces it worked with Nvidia to port steamOS to ARM for Denver etc. NO WINTEL at all in the box then which is their goal (google/apple's goal also, apple's been trying to get rid of Intel for ages and use their own chips). The entire gang is working together to kill Wintel. I don't think it will happen overnight, but they sure will make a HUGE dent in the reasons you need wintel today. Adobe apps already run on macs, which is a form of linux/opengl anyway, and so does a TON of other stuff only had on windows otherwise. Apple/valve/google/nvidia/qcom/samsung all have reasons to push OpenGL to kill Wintel and together they certainly have the cash to pay for porting to ANY software maker if they can't do it themselves.
I wouldn't be surprised if apple is already trying to do this behind closed doors. How can you move your mac from INTEL if you don't get all those great apps mac's share with WINTEL moved to ARM? Adobe etc has to run on ARM for that to work right? This is the whole reason they are making their own cpus and probably a gpu in the works or they'll just buy IMG.L for theirs which they've been using for years in phones etc. Mac's only needed about 10% and then you saw the massive wave of games ported to OpenGL/MAC (gog's porting right and left, along with others too). Steam sells tons of MAC stuff too. Get ready for tons of ports to ARM/OpenGL to finally finish the game. Apps of course will need to be done for Apple to truly dump Intel and it's no secret this is their goal. Anything that makes WINTEL weaker (less reason to need them) makes MACs, ARM, Steambox's, Android, Linux etc all stronger. I've been saying it for ages now, and here we go
I can't wait for a full fledged ARM box with 50-100w cpu and Nvidia Pascal card inside. For the cheap people it will be a 50-100w APU type (todays' K1 or something like it amped up to 4ghz with a few more SMX's on it for gpu power like AMD/Intel APU style), to avoid the discrete charge just like we have now on Wintel.
This isn't rocket science and easily done, it's just a matter of how long it takes, so just take your time and get it right. The PC world will look quite different in 5-10yrs. Everyone is coming for Wintel's 155B in sales/31B profits, not to mention all you can make on the boxes their stuff is in if YOU are selling a vertically integrated box where most of what is inside is YOURS. At worst they'll be able to drop the cost on any box without the wintel fees inside. This should allow developing nations to join in on boxes far closer to say a USA box thus upgrading the world so to speak for these countries.
All great stuff, bring it on. I can't wait for all that comes with it, such as games/apps possibly playing nicely between say, your tablet, PC (whatever it is made up of, ARM etc), phone, tv etc. Getting developing nations in on the more powerful boxes will enlarge AMD/NV etc's TAM, which will make them more money so we keep getting MORE R&D for some great stuff ahead. The ARM side could easily sell a $200 chip or less that performs like i7 without the extra $150 and still make a LOT of money (could likely do it for $150 easily). The ARM side also has a free OS, so again another $100 off. Same perf, $250 less to get the rest of the world able to buy more powerful boxes, joining the developed world on the treadmill of upgrades (hardware and software). I'm only talking the top end here, but you still save at worst a windows fee and whatever you save at whatever level of Intel cpu you would have ordinarily paid for in these countries (or not since most can't afford i7-4770 etc). A side effect is more jobs, higher wages, and a better economy everywhere just because MORE are actually participating. All good and less power stuck in two monopolies called WINTEL.
I'm not saying Wintel will die, rather they will just become less monopolistic and have to listen to customer's wants/needs again or become obsolete. MS being forced off DirectX in favor of OpenGL would be great too. Small devs could make a lot more money if they could easily get their game to run everyone very quickly and have a HUGE TAM to sell to. No more need for EA etc.
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