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Has NVIDIA just killed AMD and Intel?

Computex is underway in Taipei and although the rise of AI has meant that there have been very few "exciting" announcements for gamers and the rest, NVIDA has unveiled something that could really shake up the industry.

The next big thing could be NVIDIA's N1X high integration APU.

Typically, APUs consist of a CPU and a relatively wimpy GPU on a single die. They are most often used in laptop or low-end desktop systems where low power and low price are a priority over performance.

I'm using an APU (AMD Ryzen 5600G) in the desktop system on which I'm typing this now. The six processor cores and inbuilt GPU provide more than enough horsepower to handle simple tasks such as web-browsing, watching videos and word processing. To use anything more powerful would be a waste of energy and capital.

NVIDIA's new APU however, could pose a very real threat to AMD and Intel and the concept of the "wimpy" iGPUs that an APU contains.

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