APUs

They won't merge them, not unless we have some breakthrough in microelectronic design. Sure you get a good bandwidth if you have them on the same die but then the TDP and other factors are immense. I say 'not until quantum computing' :p
 
I like the idea of an APU and GPU working together.
 
I'd be very interested in seeing what they can do with APUs in terms of performance. I mean, if they can get a large enough GPU die in there, it could be a pretty potent system. It might need extra cache for a framebuffer, but it could be a very interesting development.

The problem is that it would affect your upgrade cycle, in that you would now need to upgrade CPU + GPU to upgrade the GPU, considering we dont often need to upgrade CPUs.
 
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