Fjodor2001
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- Feb 6, 2010
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Hey, if you want to think Zen based APUs for mainstream PCs will have HBM2, then I am not going to try to stop you...
The trend is towards higher integration. The reason is obvious: It's cheaper to produce a single chip containing APU with HBM, than a separate APU/CPU + discrete GFX card with HBM. Especially since the iGPU part of the APU will be wasted silicon in the latter case, and the iGPU is taking up an ever larger part of the APU die area.
It's just a matter of when it'll happen. First gen Zen APUs, or perhaps second...? That we don't know yet.