Google has bought Nest, maker of smart thermostats and smoke detectors, for 3.2 billion, and AMD released their Kaveri APUs, which give surprisingly good performance for an APU (CPU + GPU).
Sources:
https://nest.com/blog/2014/01/13/nest-google-and-you/
http://www.techpowerup.com/196841/amd-announces-4th-generation-a-series-kaveri-desktop-apus.html
http://www.techpowerup.com/196842/mantle-enables-significant-performance-improvement-in-battlefield-4-amd.html
http://www.techpowerup.com/196794/amd-catalyst-14-1-beta-to-include-mantle-and-trueaudio-runtimes.html
Hardware Canucks benchmarks: http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/hardware-canucks-reviews/65031-amd-kaveri-a10-7850k-a8-7600-review-26.html
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