Ars: AMD Fusion won't kill the GPU, but what if it kills the CPU?

[ImaNihilist]

Intel following in AMD's footsteps? Intel has been leading the IGP push for the last decade. Nvidia got in the game and forced them to push forward a little harder. Sandy is the evolution of Intel's own IGP platform. AMD went like 6 years without selling a platform. It wasn't until they bought ATI that they even tried. They bought ATI who has managed to work together with AMD to make some very mediocre, short-run products. Seriously, is there a single OEM using the AMD platform?

And that's why Fusion doesn't even make any sense. Who [OEMs] is going to buy it? On what platform? What kind of products can OEMs even create? If AMD was Intel and their platform was the standard, they could pull it off. They could create dozens of different SKUs and drop them in. Intel can get a single platform into market and keep it there for four years at at time.

Fusion is AMD following in Intel's footsteps, ignoring the fact that they don't have a platform or the clout to pull this off. They can't get the pricing. They won't even be able to offer this at a highly profitable margin, because they can't do the volume.

Here is my review without even using it:
Balls: 10/10
Effort: 8/10
Execution: 2/10
Timing: 1/10

AMD is killing itself. AMD is still building products while Intel is building solutions.