Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Tue 5th Aug 2008 21:28 UTC, submitted by irbis
"AMD's plan to integrate a CPU and GPU on a single chip, codenamed Fusion, has been a hot topic since the CPU manufacturer first announced it planned to purchase ATI. AMD hasn't had much to say about Fusion lately, beyond confirming that the project exists and is still in development, but new rumors have surfaced over what form Fusion might take when it surfaces in 2009."
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If this the future of AMD/ATI graphics controllers, this will mean it won't be possible to use combinations.. an ATI graphics card with an Intel processor for instance.
Hopefully this will be a second market, embedded perhaps... because, frankly.. what if someone wanted to use an AMD card on a non-x86 system? Nothing explicitly disallows that on systems with a PCI/AGP bus.
Also raises an interesting question as to where Apple fits into the equation. Will we eventually see the multicore monster Intel is developing going to be used in the future workstations? If Nvidia become the only via option - given the current problems with the Nvidia graphics cards, how is Apple going to cope with that fall out and possibly future fall outs?
Although this does open up possibilities, it also limits the possibility for future competition in the graphics market - especially when it comes to future developments for OEM vendors who want to chop and change to meet customers demands.