Quote Originally Posted by zir_blazer View Post
However, where did you get the 480 Shaders from? It would make it slighty superior to the Radeon 5670 that got 400.

Fusion parts are good for either the Notebook market, and for the low end and mainstream Desktop (That is also where AMD is aiming them at), because getting more things integrated in the Processor piece is cheaper than having them separate.
The problem isn't the new Socket for Notebooks, but the fact that we will have again two Desktop Sockets coexist. And the idea of segmentating the market in both Fusion for low end and mainstream, then Bulldozer for high end desktop, doesn't sound very good if you want the features of both platforms. No one would like buying a Llano then hearing news that Bulldozer will come first to Socket AM3.
It's from some picture of the processor. The expected power of IGPU is the most interesting thing of all - it's more than enough for all low-end to mainstream applications (office, HTPC, light gaming). You can still use more powerfull dedicated VGA.

I see no problem in features - as long as we know Llano does not lack anything compared to GPU-less processors, so again no difficulties with features. Intel now has 3 active sockets (775, 1156, 1366) and plans to have 4 (1155, 1156, 1366, 1365 or something like that) - it is crazy but apparently sells well and that's what matters.