There's the possibility of shared memory, between CPU and integrated GPU, as John Carmack noted, skipping the transfer. Apparently, the xbox does this already.

There's the possibility of shared memory, between CPU and integrated GPU, as John Carmack noted, skipping the transfer. Apparently, the xbox does this already. Big extrapolation: If intel can pull this off, they may be able to own the next platform, of GPU-based computation. I suggest that's the next platform because it seems to be the only place where many-core code is really happening. And many-core is the only way to get Moore power, since clock rates hit a wall.