The way you wire the mem sockets to the cpu (mem controller) affects the amount of channels and cost of the board - so is it okay ?

@Kedas

Why on Earth would one put and APU in AM3 socket which is desktop-mainstream/performance oriented?? AM3 will probably receive BD cores without the problem since the only thing changed will be cores themselves.HT3.1 is already supported,IMC will be DDR3 capable with possible quad channel support,but that is not a problem since all perf. AM3 boards have 4 slots/dimms for quad channel support in future.

One thing is sure now.
You won't be doing the step form CPU to APU without socket change.
Gives me an idea of the life expectancy of current AM3 motherboards.

Given the flux in AMD's 'roadmaps' of late, not sure why 2011 would seem something to talk about. What I'm hearing is basically nothing new until (what used to be called) Fusion; which originally was 2009, and pushed to 2011 - this just seems to be reinforcing 2011.

And I think ITcommander has it right - Puma is based on the K8 core (with K10 'uncore' stuff); so I think the 128FP is basically just catching the mobile up to the K10 core and then eventually moving it to Fusion (or APU if you prefer) in 2011.

Not really sure what AMD is going to do in the mobile arena for the next 2 years. Probably see some power improvements moving to 45nm, but it looks like not much else - not sure if this will make any inroads into the market they have the smallest slice of.

The original K8 architecture used 64-bit FPUs and SSE units and since Griffin is closer to K8 than Barcelona, I'm pretty sure current AMD mobile chips also use 64-bit FPU and SSE units. In general, I believe the FPUs and SSE units share some logic and they have the same width. 128-bit FPUs are not new and both Merom and Barcelona have 128-bit FPUs to match their 128-bit SSE units.

http://www.realworldtech.com/page.cfm?ArticleID=RWT040208182719&p=6

Are you sure AMD doesn't mean that they are adding 128-bit FPU and SSE units to their mobile processors to match Barcelona and Merom?

lOOKING dARN cLEVeR. So tight No More Chipsets, Santas' Mind inside Sir William morphed onto Hardware,FAST. On DDR3, think it appears low as thats Standard & AMD Holds to Standard until miserable end. Probably Go Higher if Standard is Higher in 2011. Ahso, Desktop Parts May Be Even Richer, As They've Got Space & Power to Churn, Crunch & Spit. ALL AT SAME TIME. Probably From Old South, Like Queen Liza II. drashek