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AMD's Fusion CPU + GPU Will Ship This Year
mr_sifter writes "Intel might have beaten AMD to the punch with a CPU featuring a built-in GPU, but it relied on a relatively crude process of simply packaging two separate dies together. AMD's long-discussed Fusion product integrates the two key components into one die, and the company is confident it will be out this year — earlier than had been expected."
I recently went from an older AMD dual core to a Phenom II. With the exact same board and hardware, my memory performance increased by about 20% thanks to the independent memory controllers.
AMD also makes strikingly capable on-board graphics, so this will likely rule out the need for on-board or discrete video in the average person's computer. Cheaper/simpler motherboards and hopefully better integration of GPGPU functionality for massively parallel computational tasks.
If sharing a song makes you a pirate, what do I have to share to be a ninja?
You're behind the times.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATI_Hybrid_Graphics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalable_Link_Interface#Hybrid_SLI
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Sigh, I know *I'm* the one actually feeding the troll here, but: http://www.intel.com/consumer/products/technology/graphics.htm
The page for the GMA 950 even has this hilarious tidbit:
"With a powerful 400MHz core and DirectX* 9 3D hardware acceleration, Intel® GMA 950 graphics provides performance on par with mainstream graphics card solutions that would typically cost significantly more."
Whoever wrote that line must have been borrowing Steve's Reality Distortion Field.