Want your x1950xtx on the same chip as your CPU?

[akherat]

In this article (http://news.com.com/2008-1001_3-6118265.html?part=rss&tag=6118265&subj=news) the CTO of AMD has a little Q&A where he mentions that they are looking at putting the CPU and GPU together - not in the same way as "integrated graphics" on a laptop, although he does talk about that too, but actual integration of CPU and GPU as early as 2008. It's an interesting read.

[rabb1t]

Yeah, they mentioned this before. I'm betting it will be several years for development to reach the point where they will be powerful enough to consider as a replacement for standard add-in GPUs. (With less powerful integrated type ones we see today being the early model types.)

[akherat]

Yes, it will be a curious development to see what happens when 'integrated' graphics controllers become mated with the CPU on the same silicon - with no bus to cross and support for programmable shaders, it would make for a really interesting low/mid range computer.