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Borusa, I'm just trying to parse your response....

AMD might get more from ARM than nV.

Why? Do you believe that Radeon graphics are fundamentally better than nVidia's technology? Or that AMD can beat nVidia in the low power space, even though nVidia consistently beats them in the discrete graphics space, even when they sometimes have inferior products?

I could see and ARM processor integrated into AMD's current fusion design. It would make a wider power envelope.

I understand, for example, the notion of replacing the Bobcat core in Brazos with an ARM A9 core(s), but I don't understand what you mean by "wider" power envelope.

When the ARM processor is enough, ... The way most people use desktop, dtr, etc., the power savings would help.

Agreed, ARM A9 will be lower power than Bobcat, but it would also be lower performance. Ok, in some cases lower performance doesn't matter (video playback, light web surfing or email...) but for many other emerging usages (HTML5, content creation, etc.), even a Bobcat is better than an ARM A9.

Probably get down below SB on low power

Sure, but that's like saying a moped consumes less gasoline than a 6-cylinder high performance luxury automobile. If that's important to you, fine, but it all depends on where you want to drive, and how fast you want to get there. Are you going down the street to he supermarket, or say, from Portland to Seattle?

and match performance albeit at higher power consumption, when needed.

What? In the context of ARM vs. Sandy Bridge I think you have this backwards.