AMD is still quite competitive in the GPU market, but their major progress lately is in their HSA[0]. A big problem with GPU computing is that you have two dist

AMD is still quite competitive in the GPU market, but their major progress lately is in their HSA[0]. A big problem with GPU computing is that you have two distinct memory spaces, so whatever is being done on the GPU needs to be loaded into VRAM, worked upon, and then returned to system RAM. The goal of HSA is to break this down. If you have GPU and CPU on one chip with a single pool of RAM that both can access a lot of communications complexity and overhead goes away. All of this is still very new tech, so what I am saying is conjecture and possibility, but there is a lot of potential in this area. I am not able to say whether the magnitude of this is similar, but you might think of it analogously to AMD64 architecture. AMD was first to the table with 64 bit processors. They are also first to the table with this. Intel may catch up and blow them away, as has now happened with 64 bit processors, but right now AMDs integrated graphics far beyond Intel's offerings. [0]http://developer.amd.com/resources/heterogeneous-computing/what-is-heterogeneous-system-architecture-hsa/ http://developer.amd.com/resources/heterogeneous-computing/w...