Fusion!!!!!!!! Die shot here

Unlike Intels current "fusion" parts, AMD takes a bigger approach

Some may argue that ATI was unecessary, but, the future is nigh
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This may be the beginning of some nice things right here tho.
Also, check out my previous link about AMDs financial day, has some infos with more to come on Bull Dozer in my links

Look at things now even. You can get a nice AMD quad for 100 bucks. I just saw a combo with the athlon 2 620 x4 and an ecs mobo for under 150. ECS may not be the greatest, but for those of us with ddr2 already, jump onto one of those, a little overclocking, and grab a 5750 and you've got a nice gaming machine

Granted 5750 and 5770 are not top of the line, but look at what a small amount of money will buy now. The 8800gt was the card to have for how long, now a semi budget card will overpower it with ease. AMD is still hurting no doubt, but if they can keep ruling the mainstream and budget markets and providing performance there, how many people, even us enthusiasts are going to say that level X performance is good enough because the gains of say something like a future i7 will be neglible to the user?

I think you will see newer tech making leaps as we have been, but it also getting cheaper as you see with AMD's case. If they can rule the low end and budget markets, they could eventually move up to take over the high end as well.

Also, trends are SoC, and SoC lends itself naturally to mobile

Well, good enough is good enough, and as we see the lessoning of the cpu as the main desire, as its good enough, it comes down to desgn/power and gfx.
Thus LRB and fusion, and why AMD bought ATI.
Some may not be able to see this progression, but its coming.

Its needed. And not just for gfx.
Some apps will never be multi threaded, or only parts will. Some apps are very parallel, and having a gpgpu/fusion approach, or many cored, is essential.
Its the quickest way to this tech, and possibly just having the gpu approach, may turn out to be the fastest of that as well, as it seems to be at this point, in perf and power

I agree there is a performance jump, but I think for most users, AMD's products are fast enough. Also I think AMD may realize they cannot compete on sheer performance, but they are able to provide a more balanced system. Yeah, you may get more performance from the intel products, but by the time you buy a chip from intel, you can about have a chip and mobo from the AMD side. AMD is not there yet, but I think Phenom 2 was a big step forward for them.

Understand, both Intel and AMD have short pipelines, the big difference is how wide, or many they do, AMD 3 Intel 4 wide.
The new arch from AMD will be 4 wide, therell virtually be no difference, now, it all comes down to whether taking a gpu approach to the apu solution, or sticking with a cgpu solution is faster, more efficient

Why? For stating the truth?

There are a number of good reasons to buy AMD CPUs right now, but in pure performance, you can't ignore that even the rather old Q9650 can beat AMD's flagship PhII 965 right now.

Beat is a very relative term, trounce, well thats adding a lil dont you think, even before we look?

realistically speaking AMD is the better choice as far as price to performance goes, a few minutes extra of encoding or a few extra fps don't warrant spending that kind of money especially in times like these

Of course, if this has the power of a 4850 by the time of release, and it has power characteristics of a high powered cpu, in a mobile solution, I could see that it wouldnt be that good for AMD buying ATI, itd been GREAT heheh

Bulldozer taped out already, everything else is ahead of schedule. AMD won't make any more mistakes, we just have to hope that Globalfoundries can keep up their side of the bargain.

If they do, Intel are going to be in a world of pain in 2011. The OEM's are just dying to go full scale AMD and 2011 is the year.

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Thank you Jay for an honest unbiased presence in the forums, it's really great when there's almost always EXTREME fanboism on both sides. It's nice for a change.

Well, since I linked the firsy Nehalem preview from Annands, its only appropo if I were the first, Id put it up. Didnt see anything, so here we are.
@ jennyh, still waiting for someone to post on the Lucid Hydra previews

Yeah, when it comes, say good bye to low end gfx cards.
Poor nVidia and LRB low end prospectives

Oh wait, this is what Ive been saying for awhile now, and that Intel needs to step it up regarding their IGPs.