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In other news, Frey continues kicking unprecedented levels of ass.
It's not about need, man, it's about want.Not kidding. At all.The only people who really need that much power are those in the rendering industry, like Pixar. It doesn't matter for games, because no sane coder is going to write something that needs that much power because that would prevent it from being used by anything/one else.
But there is another, far more important reason they created this thing: just to create it.Science for the sake of science is how we got here today, and that applies to computers. Without that, Omni wouldn't exist.Also, notice the trend of 3.something GHz clocks and multiples of processors? This is because the chipmakers have hit a wall: they can't make the transistors any smaller before quantum mechanics starts messing with things.