He is probably referring to their 200mm fabs. It's incredibly expensive to build a new fab, but even more expensive to retool an existing fab to handle larger wafers. Most companies just build another fab and use the old one for low-end products, or in this case (maybe), sell it.

It's called Fusion and it will involve both Bobcat, Bulldozer (next-gen desktop), and Stars (Phenom). As far as I know, the 1-10W TDP that is being tossed around for Bobcat includes the GPU that will be on the same chip. Note that this will increase speed (there is no bus the CPU and GPU have to connect through) and probably vastly simplify (or possibly eliminate) the northbridge.

Everyone talks about how Core 2 came out of nowhere and stomped AMD, but no one is talking about how R700 is doing the same thing now in the GPU market, only vice-versa. AMD/ATI were completely marginalized for a generation, only selling mid-range cards. Now they are back on top with a card that force Nvidia to cut prices. Nvidia is nearly as big of a company as AMD selling only video cards and chipsets, a competitive Radeon seems like it can only help AMD in the long run.

Sounds like some solid info, Carl.

Hahah oh god I love AMD. The things they do for consumers. It doesn't even matter if they do it on purpose, but their whole existence in the CPU and GPU industry has spurred innovation and lowered prices.

Yeah, again, you guys completely misunderstood the "race to the bottom" comment. The Sony exec's point was that if everyone focuses on making low-cost computers, the high-end will stagnate and performance will ultimately suffer. I think Asus is just realizing that perhaps they sacrificed too much in trying to make a cheap laptop.

Just so you know, Amos & Andy was incredibly racist. Probably not the best reference to use.