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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.'"
You're an idiot. Of course it's very easy to beat Fusion with discrete parts, if it weren't the morons designing the discrete parts would be fired. My next laptop will have a Fusion APU and the reason is that it means that I don't need an IGP, which is fine, if I'm just running a desktop, there's no reason why I need that extra thermal overhead and hit to my battery life.
It's interesting to see what you posted, but you forgot that part where Intel was caught using it's dominant market position to keep integrators from using AMD products. Even now it's difficult to find computers that have AMD products without having to put them together yourself.