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GPUs: How did we get here?

Today’s GPUs are capable of amazing things, and as a processor type, have found their way into almost every imaginable electronics device—from cars to rockets, from TVs to smartphones, and of course game consoles and PCS. Yet, the journey that got us to the powerful Nvidia GeForces and AMD Radeons we use today was a long one, and we can ...

Karen Moltenbrey

Today’s GPUs are capable of amazing things, and as a processor type, have found their way into almost every imaginable electronics device—from cars to rockets, from TVs to smartphones, and of course game consoles and PCS. Yet, the journey that got us to the powerful Nvidia GeForces and AMD Radeons we use today was a long one, and we can thank many determined visionaries with blazing the path forward. Recently, some of those scientists discussed their early work in a live virtual SIGGRAPH Pioneers Panel called “Chasing Pixels: The Pioneering Graphics Processors,” moderated by Jon Peddie, himself one of the
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