Quote Originally Posted by Behemot View Post
The choice for APU's (LIano, Ontario) was SOI GPU or bulk CPU. According to Fuad, AMD has chosen the second possibility. Both should be made in 40 nm bulk with some RV8x0 GPU. Interesting for me.
Huh? Unless I'm mistaken, I seem to remember Bergman alluding to the fact they're SOI with the comment that the GPU portion is not a risk item on SOI.

While AMD's future Fusion offering would certainly have cost/size advantages when used in a game console... it's still a year out and I think the next xbox360 revision should prove to be interesting at a sooner date. Also, like chumbucket mentioned, just because it has a decent amount of SPs doesn't mean the performance is the same as it would be for a discrete implementation... there are still issues of TDP and more importantly the memory interface (I really wish they would've leaked some details on the Fusion memory controller ).

Now what I'm waiting for is the point when the GPU portion will be more native and not necessarily require going through a software driver, which AMD seems to acknowledge.