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AMD shows the world's first Fusion demo
ONTARIO AND LLANO, AMD's first accelerated processing unit (APU) products will be available in the first half of 2011.
Describing APUs as combining a CPU and GPU in a single-die processor and designed with HD and 3D video in mind, AMD gave the first public demonstration of its future technology at Computex.
Calling APU technology Fusion, Rick Bergman, AMD's products group senior vice president, showed a Dx11 video of an Aliens versus Predators game demo. He said that with an APU built in the game's high quality graphics will be seen in the future on netbook like products.
Bergman revealed that his company is talking to customers about Fusion and giving demonstrations at Computex after "a couple for years of talking" about the concept. Llano, he explains, is for mainstream customers, while Ontario is for new form factors that want full HD display capabilities but with low power.
Bergman describes the Fusion APU as being as significant a development in computer architectures as the CPU and GPU were. He went on to describe Fusion as having "a multi core x86, with a DX11 highly parallel capable device, hooked through a high speed bus and giving those two processing elements access to a high speed memory, all in one single die." Regarding another demonstration video he explained that what was being shown were graphics running at 60 frames per second.
He also announced the "AMD Fusion Fund", a financing vehicle for AMD to make investments in companies developing products that will use the chip design company's Fusion APUs. µ
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Single threaded performance ? In the multi-core ages ? Maaaaaan i feel really bad for you. You're completely outdated.
Also, believe me. CPU+GPU in a single die, will consume less power and heat less, than both separated.
I don't want that crap in my CPU. I can get a separate GPU. I want faster single threaded performance and lower power usage.
CANOT THINK OF A BETTER REASON TO GO TO DAIRY QUEEN, WHICH IS WHAT I AM DOING RIGHT NOW.
THANKS BYE.
Nah, I just think he's coming down off his high.
"He went on to describe Fusion as having 'a multi core x86, with a DX11 highly parallel capable device, hooked through a high speed bus and giving those two processing elements access to a high speed memory, all in one single die.'"
Wow! A Phenom II and an ATI 5000-series (hopefully) with an IMC on a single die!!! OMG!
Not only is it understandable, but on topic as well.
A bug, perhaps ?
A single-component media processor..should have been named MediaGX Perhaps?
Slated to debut sometime in 2011, according to the company's latest roadmap, the Llano chip will be part of AMD's upcoming Sabine platform, which will be based on the AMD 900-series core-logic and will be part of the chip maker's Fusion lineup.
The chip maker has showcased a die shot of the upcoming microprocessor, which was detailed by Rick Bergman, senior vice president and general manager of AMD's products group. According to said details, the Fusion processor will feature 4 x86 cores that resemble that of the company's current Propus processor (the Athlon II X4), combined with 6 SIMD engines, featuring 80 Stream processors per engine. The integrated graphics inside the Llano chip resemble that of the Evergreen GPU, which is at the base of the company's new line of Radeon HD 5800 series of GPUs.
Other features include an integrated PC3-12800 memory controller, 2MB of L2 cache (as opposed to previously leaked claims that the Llano would feature 4MB of L3 cache), 1 billion transistors and a 32nm silicon-on-insulator manufacturing process. The Llano is what the chip maker likes to call an APU, namely an accelerated processing unit, which will be combined with the future Sabine platform, designed to feature USB 3.0 and Serial ATA-600 on the company's future 900 series of chipsets.
Theres Simplier AMD Processor,maybe now, then gpu accelerator within year. HOOTTTEER 48 Core super computer on Chip, 10 to 20 times more engines than todays spreading multicore intitiatives.
Could Be Intels' BIG Bang. Snapping at PU bm potential. Midas, Finally.
drashek
CPU/GPU integration is the coming thing IMHO. It's nice to see AMD in the game... we need competition for Intel. And AMD 5000 GPU cores are very nice. (FWIW, I own AMD and Intel boxes, haven't regretted building any of them.)