New rumor about ATI Southern Islands

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If AMD genuinely desires to address the HPC market, they will have to invest more transistors into their designs for dedicated HPC function....which will mirror what Nvidia has done with Fermi.

Of course, the AMD fan boys will herald this as the greatest thing ever even if the power envelope is increased dramatically, much as what happened with Fermi

Fusion as a concept and the aim for power/price/performance strategy will allow them to come up with stuff that suits that concept of a HPC tech card down the line.
I cant think they be skipping a growing new market as we move towards a union between different structural elements, combining for example a videocamera with a normal camera is now on the way, you buy both in the same toy as the technology now have moved far with that.
Like the phone that is now, music, video, chat, and well a phone.

social networking is increasing, at a rate that is astounding, and software and hardware needs to met up there as that continues.
If I be hired by amd I advice them to get going there with their commercials even more.

So, our hardware, video and cpu, and other things is getting soon to a point where we can have a combined element, and fermi is just powerhungry due to bad design, first generation tends to be that.
I expect that Nvidia will improve the power issue a lot in the upcoming revisions they do.