uao! :)

Well nvidia has been trying to get their foot into the nonrealtime rendering market for some time. So it Is a logical step, good for hardware too.

What is happening to the world?

wauw nvidia loves shaders

Mega Globalization !!!
Maybe after 10-20 years there will be only one shop around the world, something like MegaMarket or MegaMall from where you can buy tomatoes, t-shirts, audio and video hardware, softwares... and everything will be own by only one company. Maybe its name will be something like EarthExpress :)

In my opinion all that acquires that happen lately will give more incomes for the companies but will limit the peoples to do just specific things, this will kill the freedom of the individuals to express themselves by way different from the others. And then everyone will make porno movies that can be viewed on only one media :)))
But this will not continue forever. Or maybe its for good?

During the late 90\'s SGI and nvidia, after a legal todo, went cooperative by sending some of their graphics techs and coders to nvidia. At the time SGI had a cooperative agreement w/ Alias Wavefront. This was in my opinion, the \"begining\" of nvidia\'s entree into nonrealtime market not just recently with this new deal.

I dunno, some people (not me) would take this as meaning the doom of nvidia and their graphic hardware if they couldn\'t write their own rendering technology

however, I think it was a smart business move to buy the company that already has it available right now if they felt they needed it. Especially in a fast paced computer graphics technology world where nvidia wouldn\'t want to spend years and years writing software that took mental images over 20 years to get their rendering technology where it is today.

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yeah, as if one can really compare nvidia with <i>you-know-who</i>...