The world wide web, as invented by Tim Berners-Lee in the 80s, is now dead. Graphics and video have become the primary applications for consumer internet. Here's how Intel addressing and advances this trend in its next generation Sandy Bridge processor architecture:

• Shared memory: on-chip memory called cache is shared between the CPU and graphics processing unit, or GPU.
  
• GPU now part of CPU: Intel combines the CPU and GPU on the same piece of silicon. ...the GPU takes up roughly 25 percent of the processor's real estate.
  
• New instructions: Sandy Bridge will be the first chip to support Intel's Advanced Vector Extension (Intel AVX) instructions. AVX accelerates a host of multimedia tasks, including video and audio processing.

We have to remember that processing is only a part of the networked media equation. For the system to work, we need lots of bandwidth and server-side performance.

tags: evolution, media, system, tool, information, video, internet