The History of the GPU - Eras and Environment Spawn sport and other areas of

sport and other areas of life

not eras—choices coexisting with one another until today

The Crisis is growing worse

Joséphine Bonaparte

The History of the GPU - Eras and Environment Spawn sport and other areas ofThis is the second book in a three part series that traces the development of the GPU, which is defined as a single chip with an integrated transform and lighting (T&L) capability. This feature previously was found in workstations as a stand alone chip that only performed geometry functions. Enabled by Moores law, the first era of GPUs began in the late 1990s. Silicon Graphics (SGI) introduced T&L first in 1996 with the Nintendo 64 chipset with