AMD Believes APUs will Cannibalize Low-End Discrete Graphics Card Market

With how powerful AMD’s new APUs are, a lot of people have started to believe that low-end discrete graphics cards will be obsolete. AMD even admitted this idea: “In the long run, parts of [graphics cards] business will be cannibalized and the low-end discrete GPUs will be replaced with Fusion-type products. This is all goodness for us because it replaces low-cost margin revenue with high-gross margin revenue,” said Thomas Seifert, interim chief executive officer of AMD. Personally I think that it’s a good thing. Better power and heat management as well as better performance means longer battery life and no burns on my lap. Read more here.