Hardware Catches Up

GPUs are highly specialized computer chips that were originally designed to accelerate the processing of video information in a computer. The conversation we had led to a discussion about the future of computer hardware, and I became more excited than ever. Our new friend had us over to the Silicon Valley headquarters of his company, where we walked into a room that had the very latest demonstrations for their GPU processors. We saw video games with graphics so realistic and impressive that it made everything I had seen previously look simplistic and cartoonish. Just as impressively, the games reacted to my control button pushes instantaneously.