https://dispatch3.com/tags/wheel-of-reincarnation/Recent content in Wheel of Reincarnation on Dispatch3 Inc.Hugo -- gohugo.ioen-usTue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0400https://dispatch3.com/posts/gpu_reincarnation/Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0400https://dispatch3.com/posts/gpu_reincarnation/Last week I chatted with a couple of friends about the x86 clones that appeared in the 1990s. Companies like Rise, Nexgen and Centaur. When I got back to my desk I recalled that the mid-1990s also had a number of companies building media processors to offload MPEG-1/2/4 video, audio, 2D graphics and even modem codec processing. Googling reveals a great example. The Hot Chips 8 (1996!) presentation by Paul Kalapathy of Chromatic Research describes the Mpact multimedia processor.