Nice, I'm definitely going to use this for my next build. I have been using the 4 core APUs in the systems I build for others for a while now. They make great systems with a low power envelope. The 65 watt versions matched with an ITX board are excellent for media PCs.

I don't see how, but I'd like that they were faster/more efficient. Both the CPU and GPU need to be able to co-process efficiently, sharing a common object model and/or being able to handle the same data in a cooperative and complementary way, not only the physical RAM addresses, I think when their co-processing efficiency gets near 100% they'll be fastest with the right hybrid software.

I think AMD should launch their hardware products with usable development environments ready to take advantage of it, and some examples of utilities using the new hardware features, without software backup I see it as a big delay in acceptance and use.

I really hope so, I'd like to see WCG have a hybrid BOINC client and hybrid project executables crunching WUs really fast :)

I hope this APU is really better than the previous ones.
I have an A8-5600K and it seems to match my Phenom II X3 2.8GHZ in FAAH runtimes except it has one more core :D

I am really happy with my APU. It's overclocked at 4.0 GHZ (GPU at 939mhz) and the whole system only uses 114 watts or so under 100% CPU load on all four cores and it gets quite a lot of tasks done each day. I might even get another to replace my current Phenom.