INTEL'S SANDY BRIDGE is days away from launch, but the big news this week is the massive changes to the next generation Ivy Bridge. If Intel manages to get their drivers in order, it could destroy the entire low end GPU market.
OK, lets be realistic, Intel won't get their drivers in order, five years in they are still irrevocably broken, but Ivy Bridge will change the game on the hardware side. Ivy will give a massive speed boost to the GPU side of things through the most unlikely of places, chip packaging technology. The big secret for Ivy Bridge is a silicon interposer coupled with lots and lots of DRAM under the thermal cap.
http://www.semiaccurate.com/2010/12/...ry-ivy-bridge/
Intel puts GPU memory on Ivy Bridge
2nd January 2011, 19:51
Intel puts GPU memory on Ivy Bridge 
