At this year’s Computex, Nvidia is not only planning to give the world a preview of its upcoming ION products, but has also set out to discuss some major plans it has been working on for the past five years or so. The topic at hand will be focused primarily on bringing the era of GPU Computing to the mainstream level.

Ujesh Desai, Vice President of Marketing at Nvidia recently sat down with Digitimes for a Q&A session to discuss the history of GPU compute development at Nvidia. In his central focus point, Desai speaks of the importance of heterogeneous processing between the Central Processing Unit and the Graphics Processing Unit and the future expansion focus of the GPU.

“We'll be the first to admit that the CPU is by far one of the most important processors ever developed in the computing industry. But as people are starting to realize, the GPU is just as important. For a really good modern computing device you need a GPU as a dedicated co-processor. You can do a lot more with this combination of a good CPU and a very good GPU, and this year at Computex that's the key message you're going to hear from us, and it's the key thing you're going to see from our partners as they demonstrate their new products”

The discussion can be found here.