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

[richardginn]

We've been talking about this for years. Reality is that it's cheaper and ends up making better business sense to keep them separate. Nvidia's IGP's have gotten really good. You can play DX 9 games with high settings on dirt cheap IGPs. Vendors can mix different IGP/dedicated solutions across their models easily, and cheaply.

In order for something like this to ever really take off it's going to have to be a lot better and a lot cheaper. You'll need a large player like Dell, HP or Apple to back this across a number of different models before they can reach any kind of scale that makes sense.

I do not see the CPU going anywhere, buttt.....

You might see IGP on a desktop CPU powerful enough to replace a 75-100 buck video card in the next few years.