Says AMD... and who cares about what AMD says?

Intel clearly cared enough with AMD 64 to use it themselves. CPU/GPU processors are just another evolutionary step for the modern processor.

What about cooling? GPU + CPU may generate 200W or more

This is a logical evolution fueld by the fact that it's possible to cram in more and more transisitors in the same circuit, which makes it cheaper and more efficent to put as much functionality as possible in as few circuits as possible. You only have to compare the content of a computer of today with a couple of year old machine to see where it's heading. The final goal will be a single-chip computer, or at least only having the upgradeable functionality in specific chips.

my thoughts.

which may be the best desktop processor ( currently) Intel quad core

or AMD

I think that with this new evolution, the Microproccessor in our computer will have the capabilities to control and execute functions at a much faster rate. However heat dispertion will be the biggest problem. The heat sink will have to be at least 3 times bigger than the biggest heatsinks of today. The power lost in one of these processors in heat will, in all actuality, probably be more than is actually used in the transistors. I know that they could probably fir the whole thing into a chip the size of a saltine, but it would probably need to be the size of a CD case for the heat to be dispersed so the transistors don't short together.

i had core2 duo for only 8 days.it is not so superb as they said.to much problems with mbo ecs 650i
slit-a.i am now on amd again.hope that amd is making a new socket and stronger cpu.

Sounds like we could be in for a return to simpler times. I think the graphics card of the near future will be more-or-less just a very simple processor for shifting data out of on-card memory and off to the screen.

As for the CPU, I expect we'll see compilers that will be able to take advantage of the multiple core architectures and have the blocks of code best suited to execution on a certain kind of core automatically assigned to it. Of course, this could also allow additional parallelism in multi-threaded code, provided the programmer knows how to write threads for the different cores.

We could well be coming full circle in the next few years, with everything going back to being done on the CPU, just like in the days of DOS.

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