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To: eracer who wrote (214928)	10/25/2006 3:06:21 PM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 275872

"AMD will be selling a CPU/GPU combo, and a southbridge, AND have to integrate PCI Express into the CPU or southbridge all for the low, low price of $15?" By the time this happens, AMD will be well into 45nm, if not ready for 32nm. With two processing cores, a GPU core, several lanes of PCIe, etc. the die could be pretty small. It all depends on what is considered to be adequate graphics.

To: eracer who wrote (214928)	10/25/2006 7:14:56 PM
From: pgerassi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Dear Eracer: AMD is already selling $199 PCs. They are called PICs. A $200 PC in 2008 would have a Fusion with 512MB of memory, 4GB of Ornand, connects to HDTV monitors (1280x720) via DVI and have 4 USB2 ports (one for KB, one for mouse, one for ISP/wireless and one for external storage). And you can expand it with extra memory, flash and/or HD. That would allow many 2008 games to play. $100 of that is for the CPU/GPU/ODMC. $100 buys you a $50 Fusion with 128MB of memory, 2GB of Ornand. It won't play any medium duty 3D games or be expandable. Light duty 3D games like RT strategy, role playing games or any 3 year old ones (from today) won't be a problem. To equal current PCs, you must add an external KB, mouse, DVD and monitor. $400 buys you 2GB of memory, an internal 200+GB HD and optical drive. It adds the ability to connect to a 2.5Kx1.6K monitor and able to play most 2008 3D games. It likely uses a $150 Fusion. Most of us will have needs beyond these as we pay more than $200 for the CPU and GPU in our PCs. We will want more than 4GB of memory, 1TB of disk and be able to play top end 3D games. So your thinking that it would be a nightmare for AMD, its far more likely to be a heart stopper for Intel. Remember that AMD already supplies a CPU for a $100 OLPC. All Fusion would do is up the performance of that $100 OLPC to that of the low end value PC. Pete