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AMD Fusion Details Leaked
negRo_slim writes "AMD has pushed Fusion as one of the main reasons to justify its acquisition of ATI. Since then, AMD's finances have changed colors and are now deep in the red, the top management has changed, and Fusion still isn't anything AMD wants to discuss in detail. But there are always 'industry sources' and these sources have told us that Fusion is likely to be introduced as a half-node chip."
What has that got to do with AMD, though?
Because AMD was the one that *started* the rumor, of course!!
I don't know for you fellow geeks, but as soon as I see one more attempt at doing integrated graphics in CPUs an alarm goes off in my head, the one that means "SLOW CRAP ALERT".
Integrated graphics suck. Always have, always will. More cost for same perfs == teh suck. Shared memory == teh suck. They will suck at 3D, and render desktops with tearing and artefacts when you drag windows. Teh One True Suck.
Ideas like this are one of the reasons why computers still take as long to boot as they did ten years ago, based on the fact that Some People Never Understand.
Only one thing to do with products that you just KNOW will make your life miserable : BOYCOTT.
Just use real CPUs (Intel) and real GPUs (nVidia).
Gaming is for consoles : cheap, displosable computers that only do games (and maybe run Linux because you're such a geek). Seriously, a PC you'd WANT is $2000+ and a console is $300, so why pay seven times the price just to run games anyway?
Making laws based on opinions that stem up from false informations leads to witch hunts.
Yeah, morons with zero knowledge buy pre-made "gaming MY ASS" rigs with only two cores (or worse : AMD), nowhere near enough RAM, CRAP mobos with old chipsets like the i965p, insufficient hard drives, preferably Maxtor so they DIE in two months just when you've filled them with pr0n, and mid-range graph'cards that kill the super-cheap PSU in a few weeks.
Or they try to play with what Intel tries to make pass for GPUs.
Yeah, the hot ticket is about $150. Forever. If nVidia (or ATI, for that matter) wanted to KILL the competition they'd ONLY make $2000 cards, but price them $200. They cost the SAME to produce. You'd think they believe in capitalism (definition : the system where a product ends up selling for its production cost) and do Just That, but noooo, they sell the REAL hardware for INHUMAN costs and hope that someONE will buy ONE. D'you think the piece of CRAP that's a GF6200 costs anything less to MAKE than a GTX280? Think again. Same lines, same factories, same materials, same processes. It's just price discrimination, and they're terrified of trying to outsell their competitors : shareholders will only see that you can produce castrated cards and sell them, while reserving the REAL products to the dozen people who will burn $LOTS for what EVERY GPU SHOULD BE IN THE FIRST PLACE.
Making laws based on opinions that stem up from false informations leads to witch hunts.