AMD Betting Future On the GPGPU

arcticstoat writes with an interview in bit-tech "AMD's manager of Fusion software marketing Terry Makedon revealed that 'AMD as a company made a very, very big bet when it purchased ATI: that things like OpenCL will succeed. I mean, we're betting everything on it.' He also added: 'I'll give you the fact that we don't have any major applications at this point that are going to revolutionize the industry and make people think "oh, I must have this," granted, but we're working very hard on it. Like I said, it's a big bet for us, and it's a bet that we're certain about.'"

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Re:AMD lost that bet

[LWATCDR]

Of course it isn't the best GPU with the Best CPU. It is a good CPU with a good GPU in a small low power package. It will be a long time before the top GPU is going to be fused with the top CPU. That price point is in an area where their are few buyers.

Fusions first target is going to be in small notebooks and nettops. The machines that many people buy for every day use.
GPGPU's mainstream uses are going to be things like video transcoding, and other applications that are going to be more and more useful to the average user.
For the big GPGPU power house just look to high end discrete cards just as high end audio users still want desecrate DSP based audio cards. I am waiting to see AMD use Hyperchannel as the CPU GPU connection in the future for really high end GPGPU systems like supercomputing clusters.

I will never buy ati again

[assemblerex]

solely based on their mediocre driver support.