Some more interesting details and slides:

http://www.behardware.com/news/8429/amd-ati-acquisition-and-fusion....

Will AMD+ATi now be referred to as the 'brown team' in TR articles??

So no discreet graphic cards anymore when this "Fusion" thing starts? So I cannot just upgrade a single thing anymore. Sounds like a lose lose situation for PC enthusiasts.

I know - just some humor. In fact, I'd kill for a SOC with just a P-III 1 Ghz alike proc, x1300 gfx, and integrated functions like mem controller and USB. I know it could be done - probably even passively cooled. Would make for a Palm-killer with a 7" touchscreen LCD. And would absolutely kill all those crappy VIA mini-ITX systems.

From the depths of silicon horror....

This halloweens best thriller yet ....

MEDIAGX II - BACK FROM THE DEAD

(insert long drawn out scream here)

hehe

Promising stuff... indeed it could make for either a cheap and capable on-die graphic solution or a potential on-die physics processor... amusing.

Here is an interesting link direct from AMD/ATI's website http://ati.amd.com/technology/crossfire/promotions/overdriveCore/in... computer with an ATI video card and intel processor

somebody already beat me to it oops

Okay, here's a scenario for a CPU/GPU combo chip:

- If you don't need powerful graphics, you've got an all-in-one solution. Cheap, convenient, low-power. Probably'd be great for mini and micro PCs.

- If you need the graphics horsepower, you install a discrete graphics solution, and the on-board graphics instantly becomes a dedicated physics/floating-point co-processor. It's on-chip with a really high bandwidth interconnect, so you're not limited like the current solutions are. It might be like Folding-on-GPU performance, but for all your programs.

In either case, it'd probably be on 65 nm, so it might be something like X1650-class and add maybe 5 watts or so the CPU power. Sounds like a good deal to me.

Alright. Let get some "synergies" rollin'.

Interesting for anyone that wants a one-board, cheap, POC, with weak gpu functions from Dell for an office box.

At some point could you blame Amd/Ati if there is a genuine Amd check and if it comes back intel the 3d acceleration will only run Open GL?

I guess it will be interesting for hardware sites... now there are two 800 pound gorillas both shackled to M$ the master.

Wonder what the interest rate is on a 2.5 billion dollar loan?

Ok, the ATI website now resembles the AMD website.

http://ati.amd.com/

Yo yo, Morgan Stanley, hook me up with 2 bill? I be a Senyah for you, I Sweeah!

Judgement day for the employees that are going to be cut. Knowing a few friends working in the now-former Markham HQ, I am going to take a moment to remember you guys.

Hopefully the integrated GPU part of all of this makes it harder for computer OEMs to ship computers with craptastic graphics performance. OEMs focus entirely too much on memory and CPU, and don't put enough emphasis on GPU, which matters far more, in my opinion.

Wow,check out that website...it really is AMD/ATI now.
All the NVidia/AMD combo fanbois must be choking on their anti ATI venom right now lol.

They're interesting till Intel-ATI does the same and we're stuck with concurent upgrade paths for both our graphics cards and our processers not to mention being locked to one brand name or the other.

It will be interesting to see what happens to office PC's and laptops over the next couple of years. Especially since you can use the ATI motherboard graphics with an external ATI card for extra monitors. Laptops auto switching graphics cards depending on application would also be nice.

Does anyone know how much income ATI was getting from the Xbox 360 and Wii? They should help AMD's bottom line for a while.

Seems like AMD are getting into MS good books, the 360 GPU and giving chartered the 65nm SOI and process management tech for the next version of the 360 CPU.