570 times stronger graphics cores in 6 years?

The statement was made at the Hot Chips Symposium at Stanford University.

Jen-Hsun Huang, president and CEO of NVIDIA, says the computing power of GPUs could increase up to 570 times over the next 6 years. Another interesting fact is that when Huang was asked about CPU-GPU integration, he said that the requirements of 3 main groups should be considered when developing such a chip. OEMs, chip developers and programmers. In his view, compliance with all requirements would be difficult to fuse into a chip and the functions would have to be selected separately, allowing each component to work at its own pace. This, he said, provides more flexibility and more market opportunities.

The statement is surprising, since so far we have been able to move towards CPU-GPU integration, which of course may be partly true. This may be true, as more and more times we come across all-in-one machines, or purpose-built tools, where integration can be important. However, the current direction does not seem to be dying out completely either, in fact, according to NVIDIA, much more development is expected on the GPU front in the coming years than for CPUs.