Sure it does, can you say Timna? A project for which I spent 6 weeks in Haifa supporting. What I think is missed here is that the vast majority of users don't spend their days playing graphics intensive games. Hard for these guys to grasp.
Hard to tell if you're being sarcastic or not, but I think all the Fusion naysayers are being a touch premature with their pooh-pooh'ing, what with knowing next to nothing about a product that will launch in two years.
If AMD can get great IGP-level graphics embedded on-die, they'll have a cost ADVANTAGE over another product that requires an off-board IGP chipset.
Not to mention a performance advantage thanks to having all that nice streaming processor power nestled all tightly up against the cores. By then, the GPU pipelines will be 3 generations or so ahead of the up-n-coming R600, which will have 64 of them. Likely to be full 64b FP SIMD pipelines... I'd say 8 would be a nice number to kick off the Fusion product line. Far more dense pure computation resources than another core would add.
Remember, stream processing... (Which will undoubtedly be embodied in discrete products sooner than Fusion CPUs are due.)
I.e. 2d/3d/stereo graphics, physics, crypto, voice-recog, etc. in smaller, faster, cheaper devices... OLPC2.0... UMPCs... Wearable PCs... STBs...
Just because ephud doesn't play games doesn't mean the rest of the world has to suffer with lame UI's.
More integration, more performance, lower cost... I don't see the problem.
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