Is there a video card/processor hybrid?

I remember in one of my computer classes in high school a classmate found a video about this really awesome video card that could even pick up slack for the processor. Any leads?|||the i3/i5 clarkale cpus have an integrated gpu in the cpu, and any nvidia card can run 'physix' which dose physics processing and takes load from the cpu|||Almost any newer NVidia GPU (Cuda) and Intel CPU can do combine efforts to do this. It's called coprocessing. AMD is also jumping in the game with it's new AMD Stream and FireStream processors which allow coprocessing with compatible ATI GPUs.



A lot of newer graphics cards can provide floating-point operations at 2-10 times faster than most GPUs, so some programs actually use the GPU for processing instead, when massive data calculations and physics operations need to be done, such as with CT scan image reconstruction, research data resolution, B.O.I.N.C (SETI@Home and Foldin@Home, etc.).



Now, with the new technologies, the CPU and GPU can work in "concert" with each other to streamline processing tasks. AMD is developing a new technology that will go so far as to create a family of APU (Accelerated Processing Unit) processors called "Fusion", where the CPU and GPU are a single processor with multiple, special-purpose cores. That's right!! It may not sound that impressive, but the architecture is incredible. The only problem I foresee is that system builders like the freedom of being able to streamline their CPU and GPU specs separately to the type of gaming or performance computation they plan to do.