I just have to wonder if Intel's latest motherboard code named SkullTrail will be useful beyond the gaming market. The device can be outfitted with two quad-core processors and multiple graphics chips from AMD (yes, AMD) and Nvidia.Obviously the gaming market is all over this news -- awaiting it like subprime borrowers wait for rate cuts.
But one has to wonder if the IP communications space won't be able to take advantage of this motherboard for serious call processing via HMP-based software. Hopefully Nick Jensen and Alan Pound are mulling this over already.
It will be interesting to see what applications are enabled by a motherboard which is expected in systems that cost no less than $6,000!
In addition I yearn for the days when parents had to shell out no more than a quarter for their kids who wanted to play video games.
Oh, and one last point. I may need to get my hands on one of these units to see if it is indeed as fast as Intel says. Thanks to blog readers like you, I can now write this monster off.
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