ATI Graphics Processors May Compute Sound
 

ATI Technologies on Thursday demonstrated a technology that allows graphics processing units (GPUs) to compute audio effects. In the light of today’s raw-power of graphics processors, the initiative looks promising and may offer some advantages, however, the world may never see any audio technologies in the graphics chips.

At an event in London, UK, ATI showed off a demo from its software development kit (SDK) that described how can a Radeon X1300-series graphics processor compute audio data. The demo just demonstrated a simplistic equalizer, which does not require a lot of power or specific features from a processor, however, ATI has shown that it was looking in the direction; just like the company indicated it was looking at physics computing on the GPU slightly more than half a year ago.