Quote Originally Posted by JF-AMD View Post
Any GPU co-processing is going to come via either directcompute or OpenCL at this point. I doubt you would see us do anything proprietary, we've been pretty strong advocates of standards, especially when it comes to fusion. The fastest way to kill the technology is to make it proprietary (ie. Cuda). I talk to a lot of customers who are excited about cuda but wary to do any real software work on it for fear that their efforts could fall by the wayside because nvidia could decide to head in a different direction.

There is always the discussion that you can wrap cuda in OpenCL to remove the risk, but that just leads to one more layer in the software model which is more effort and one more layer of debugging if something goes wrong.
I would be disapointed serously if AMD choose to take an API for use the accelerator.

The best was to "simply" extand x86-64 to a new instruction set.

Yes not an easy work, but would be a lot faster to get performance improvement, update compilers and re-compile code.

And kill that f*cking x87, free some die space.

And JF : directcompute is proprietary.