Huh.
Not only is this about muscle-flexing and protecting their chipset sales, but I suspect that Intel really doesn't want consumers to discover how much a decent GPU can do with even a minimal CPU -- and therefore how much more important the GPU is these days.
Edit:
Well, now Intel is denying the story. However,
Not only is this about muscle-flexing and protecting their chipset sales, but I suspect that Intel really doesn't want consumers to discover how much a decent GPU can do with even a minimal CPU -- and therefore how much more important the GPU is these days.
Edit:
Well, now Intel is denying the story. However,
If and while the unbundling remains just theoretical and unexplored outside the spokesman's comment, consumers are still getting the shaft.No one has gotten Intel to say that they would sell the Atom separately or bundled. It's been unclear and indeterminate as to whether Intel would unbundle the processor from the chipset