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ATI, emulating Nvidia, turns its graphics chips into CPUs
Published 12/10/2008 by eric_lai@computerworld.com at Latest from Computerworld
ATI Technologies announced the availability of a free download that enables its powerful-but-underused graphics processors to take on the work of a computer's CPU.
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