(09/03/2013 06:29 AM)Slushba132 Wrote:  They are trying to make APU's (which are chocolatety IMO) why force one chip to fail at everything when you can just have a CPU and a GPU that both do what they do flawlessly

Their APUs are HUGE.  It's the reason they got selected, over Intel, nVidia and IBM for both the PS4 and Xbox 720.
Intel have been focusing so much on their graphics for the past few generations (from Sandy Bridge, Ivy Bridge and the upcomming Haswell) because APUs are where it's at.
APUs also allow them some potential foothold into the embedded SoC market (which is massive), although Intel have been heavily investing there too.

(09/03/2013 06:29 AM)Slushba132 Wrote:  They don't support CUDA
instead they use openCL this chocolatety unheard of thing that NOBODY NOBODY uses... Unless your name is AMD

Wrong.  CUDA is nVidia proprietary stuff.  OpenCL is an open standard, supported by AMD, Intel and nVidia.  Only nVidia uses CUDA.
They've managed to rack up support from all the marketing dollars they've spent on it.
Nonetheless, what actually uses CUDA that you care about?

(This post was last modified: 09/03/2013 05:33 PM by ZiNgA BuRgA.)