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Originally Posted by hmurchison  Apple's assembling a dream team of management in many areas. They just nabbed two AMD/ATI graphic vets (Drebin, Koduri) and now they appear to be adding top level talent in their pro apps division. |
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As for Digi they will be fine but the death knell for DSP systems has been sounding for some time now. We have 8-core systems today. In two years we'll have 16 -core workstations with 32 threads. Each core will be 4Ghz and have access to very fast main RAM.
The writing has been on the wall. Native systems will take the mantle before 2015 and won't look back. Apple will show what they can do when the next Logic Studio and Final Cut Studio show up in 64-bit and support Grand Central Dispatch in Snow Leopard.
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I don't have nearly as much belief in native systems as others seem to have here. For probably as long as I can remember people have said about the latest and greatest computers "wow, this is all we ever need. How could we possibly use more computer power?". Guess what, we always can. Not least since few software developers actually care to optimize their software. If they did, we wouldn't need the latest Mac Pro, but they don't so we do. I don't see why it would be different with 16 or 32 cores.
PTHD is of course also challenged by this, but it's surprising to see people sitting with 5+ years old systems not even thinking about an upgrade. That's a damn long lifespan for a computer system if you ask me.