CES 2011-Another Focus is on Intel and AMD

The new focus is now on creating an integrated CPU/GPU chip to help speed up on board graphics and decrease energy usage. This will benefit Video consumption, and game play on machines that don't have add-on video cards. You can plan on seeing a decrease in pricing and better responsiveness in your applications as programmers take advantage of these products.

Intel is using this year's CES event to introduce their Sandybridge processor line. The first CPUs will ship very early in 2011 for both desktops and notebooks. The architecture discussion we have here today applies to both. The CPUs won’t be called Sandy Bridge but instead will be called Intel’s 2nd generation Core i3/i5/i7 microprocessors.
If you are interested in the detail of how this processor family works, take a look at this review from http://www.anandtech.com/print/3922.

AMD announced its new Fusion APU's (Accelerated Processor Units), and talks about the system integrators that will be putting systems and software to take full advantage of the APU's capabilities. Take a look at the AMD's site for more information. http://www.amd.com/us/press-releases/Pages/software-hardware-ecosystem-fusion-2011jan04.aspx.

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Addendum: How could I forget NVidia in this group as well. With everyone focusing on the Tegra 2 processor that is earmarked for many of the Android/Honeycomb Tablets that are supposed to come out in the first and second quarter of this year. It is really going to be interesting to see how this progresses.