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		Narishma on July 12, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: After Moore's Law: how phones are becoming open-so... GPUs have already transitioned away from VLIW to scalar architectures. At least on the desktop front. They may still exist in mobile GPUs.

microcolonel on July 12, 2015 [–]

Indeed, looking at GCN, it seems like you could do as well with RISC-V itself(with a fancier SIMD extension) as the shader ISA.

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