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MozartlovesUbun2
November 23rd, 2007, 06:07 PM
so what do you think?

http://blogs.mercurynews.com/aei/2006/08/the_coming_comb.html

The Coming Combo Of The CPU And GPU, Ray Tracing Versus Rasterization, And Why Billions Of Dollars Is At Stake

Jerry_bautista_intel Not everybody may care about how they get their eye-popping graphics. But how it gets delivered to you will be determined by the results of a multi-billion dollar chess game between the chip industry’s giants. Can you imagine, for instance, a future where Nvidia doesn’t exist? Where there’s no Intel? The survivor in the PC chip business may be the company that combines a graphics chip and a
microprocessor on a single chip.