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Lifer
- Mar 27, 2009
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OEMs trying to meet a price point are going to go with the less expensive processor. they don't give a rat's behind about the graphics performance when stocking walmart and staples with $400 boxes. does intel integrated bog down when running multiple video streams? yes. does your average corporate buyer care about that? no. does your average home buyer who just sees a price on a box care about that? no. quit living in the computer-savvy forum bubble.
For something like a niche All-in-one AMD should just offer a discrete GPU.
This way the small number of clients that want the extra graphics are appeased and AMD doesn't end up with a line-up that is too expensive for the average everyday customer.
-Hex big core APU with small iGPU for enthusiasts
-Quad big core APU with small iGPU (harvested from the hexcore APU with small iGPU die) for higher end everyday consumers
-No dual big core APUs (Please AMD get rid of those big core APU dies like Bristol Ridge based on quad core that yield dual core)
-Higher clocked cat core quads (now that AMD dual big cores are gone). Push the cat cores harder on desktop and don't downbin them so severely as it was in the past.
-AMD desktop parts should run happily on a single stick of DDR3 1600 or DDR4 3200
-dGPUs (fabbed at GF) for the very small amount of AMD desktop consumers that want extra graphics horsepower.
-Lower die size = Lower cost, and hopefully this helps to close the large gap in OEM desktop prices we are seeing between Intel and AMD today.