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I found some note on the furture changes of game engine what Tim Sweeney mentioned as the following:



As Teze said about the above, there are a trend (or movement) which consolidates chips on the board. And with that change, the number of cores of the chip are increased as time passes. Those will make changes on many things concerned about the game engineering side such as game engine even mostly on its renderer part. Saying first the conclusion, what Tim pointed it out is that there will happen common using of software renderer again instead of hardware supported renderer like the present due to the increasing number of the core.

Most of the things are make sense. Also he(Teze) pointed out different thing of renderer among of Unreal Engines for an example. All prevously released Unreal Engiens have Pixomatic, a famous software renderer of RADGameTools.Inc. except Unreal3. So Unreal Engine 3 will be the only one which does not include software renderer. What the point he emphasized is that any changes of hardware trend will not much affect on the Epic guys.but for other ones? The time for preparing of *BIG* changes may come.

Also there is other evidence which put the truth on the above thing. There was a rumor on the secret, not anymore it is, called 'Larrabee'. Check it and it will make it more clear and then you also can imagine that it will affect on the existing game framework and  infrastructure as what Tom Forsyth mentioned on his blog.(find it with the keyword, Larrabee)

Lastly, it might be good to mention about Nebula3's architecture on multithreaded system which can be avaialable on the link.

ps1.
Not too much passed time as mentioned above, if you have any interest on changes on renderers within two or three years, it might be helpful to see what Wolfgang Engel mentioned on his blog.

ps 2.
Pixomatic slides can be obtained via this link. Also there is  Dr.Dobbs Journal articles on Pixomatic are available: part1, part2, part3.