At the end they say, basically, getting write on system memory (as opposed to wifi chipset memory) is possible in concept but actually implementing it is future work; the page you linked is that future work.
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@Bob et al.: Ryzen 3 was announced last night (for your time zone). Early reviews indicate that the Ryzen 3 1300X is highly competitive, outperforming comparable Core i3 processors in essentially every multithreaded workload. Intel still has a lead in purely single-threaded workloads, but when we're talking about a mere four hardware threads, the multithreaded processing advantage is one that will be seen by the everyday consumer.
Sadly, the lack of an IGP will make it hard for AMD to compete at the far low end of the market.
In cost-optimized consumer PCs, the presence of integrated graphics is important because it eliminates the need for a potentially expensive graphics card. System builders would need to add an extra $30-$50 to the BOM for a basic graphics card on a system that doesn't have an IGP.
Intel HD Graphics is the most common example of an IGP.
