Rumors of this have been circulating since the AMD/ATI merger was announced but it now seems that work has already started on creating the first CPU on a GPU.
The idea of joining both a CPU and a GPU in one chip has always been there but the technology was not available. Now, with most CPUs made on 65 nanometre and GPUS also moving to 65 from 80 and with 45 nanometre looming in the horizon, the time is right for just such a venture.
The end product should be able to provide the best performance/economy ratio and has the potential to rule the OEM market. Having a GPU and CPU on the same silicon can make for a very appealing product with an equally appealing price. With the ATI takeover AMD now has the expertise to create such a chip although expect the process to take over 18 months. Once released however, the product could result in the cheapest ever PCs.

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OMFG! First post motha fukaz!
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by the way this cngpu is gonna pwn!
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So, will CnGPU make the work of the CPU and the graphic card at the same time?
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that will really SUX
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omg, who would want this s**t... some antequated gpu cellotaped to the cpu.This is for those s**tty pc world machines and quite frankly, they are terrible machines.f**k the budget market, its what's harming the pc gaming market when these cheap s**tty machines can't play the games.
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Anony@15:54...Soo you are saying screw the business/office marked and the home non-geek-playing-games-till-4-in-the-morning market? :)
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This will be great for the integrated perepheral market.
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This has some potential in the OEM market, but I see it as having more potential in the console sector. BTW, AMD and ATI are not the first to make a cpu/gpu on a single piece of silicon. Checkout Freescale's (previously Motorola) iMX21 processor.
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PE.3NIS!!!!!!CA.CA POOOOO POOOO!!!
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this will allow amd to steal intels oem market as manufactorers can get more bang for there buck.thus making more money to make better gpus and cpus thus hurting intel.
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I'm an AMD fan, but rest assured intel won't sit on this, they could even already be working on this as well but haven't anouced it.
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i dont care f**k you all,bunch of s**t white ppl suck my d**k and go to hell all nerds son of b***h
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I dont think that it was a good idea... but lets see how it runs.
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I think it has potential a lot of retards dont stop to think what is possible when money is involved, and remember the whole physics card crap? This is probably what's going to eliminate that trend from getting off the ground. I think it's going to be a small cpu type thing as an added bonus to make games play better, nothing major as the main processor(s) , btw whats with all the knobs posting crap ? "omg first post" and stupid "l337 speak" talk? Grow up , f**k.
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WOW 4 in the morning? :-)
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"I think it's going to be a small cpu type thing as an added bonus to make games play better, nothing major as the main processor(s)"Not really, this is going to be the MAIN CPU, cant expect the integrated GPU to beat a good graphics card but it would be nice to use it as the PPU instead of purchasing a new vid card.
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Isnt that called console gameing?
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This is nothing extremely new. Anyone emember the days of on-board integrated graphics that were always crappy?
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It's not onboard graphics, intergrating the GPU and CPU eliminates almost all bandwidth bottlenecks, these things are gonna be very powerful, intel are workin on the same tech. Nvidia is the only one not headed in this direction, and thier gonna miss the boat if they don't hurry up.
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WTF would you know c**t
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more than you by the sounds of it...
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cup gpu bandwidth will increase, no bottle necks if they just integrate it on to a crossfire platform gpu's dual core processor chuck in a physx processor and viola u have the best bloddy thing at a reasonable price
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Nothing is clear. No one knows how it could be, and what is this!If you want to upgrade the graphics, you have to buy a new CPU too? If CPU overburns, do i have to buy only the CPU?And no one knows the prices!
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Idiot @ 14:28, smaller die sizes = cheaper cost. Since CPUs are constantly shifting to lower die sizes, it would make sense that the costs would be cheap for buying a CnGPU.
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to Anonymous @ 5:4:HAHAHAHA you are funny xD
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26th post
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Why do I have to be limited in my GPU choices by my CPU choices?I pray to god this will remain an exlusive to low-end systems.Love my discrete graphic card.
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You guys have no knowledge at all do you? Your video cards today run on a dated system. s**t think about it. Your vid card has to run along the northbridge, to the CPU then back to the card for instructions. ON DIE means faster GPU performance. That and with the improvements in RAM you could potentially have a kick arse "card" at low cost. With QUAD CORE on its way you wont need Physics processors... So for say 600 bucks or so you could have a Vid Card, Physics Processor and CPU. As a bonus you go to upgrade your video and DAMN you get a CPU upgrade as well
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This'll also remove the need for such high end processors all the time, The only fear is the graphics card is going to suck up so much juice those with your typical low-end psu's will pop soon after use :p
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Anonymousat 20:35...OK, but WHY do YOU type LIKE this?
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Integrated solutions suucks diick
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until now that is...
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This´ll be very interesting to see.
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well this could be the prdissesor to the GPU socket.mabe we will see a socketfor just the GPU(like our old CPUs.....) and then there might be slots for the GDDR or integraded on the bopard its self but I am talking way ahead or am I...
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