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AMD does a Fusion chip shuffle
YIELD CURVES are not quite what AMD expected for its desktop destined Llano accelerated processor unit (APU), so its netbook oriented sibling Ontario is arriving earlier thanks to a shift of resources.
At Computex AMD announced that its first two Fusion branded APU chips, codenamed Ontario and Llano, would be shipped to customers in the first half of 2011. AMD has described APUs as combining a CPU and GPU in a single-die processor designed with high definition and 3D video in mind. Ontario has been brought forward into the fourth quarter of 2010 while Llano has slipped to later in the first six months of 2011 due to ongoing issues with its 32nm scale manufacturing process.
AMD's global Fusion marketing director, John Taylor said, "We are not meeting our yield curves [for Llano manufacture]. We shifted resources to accelerate Ontario."
Ontario is designed for ultrathin notebooks, netbooks and other small form factor computers and Taylor expects products to appear on the market a few months after Ontario's fourth quarter shipments. Llano, designed for mainstream desktops, will arrive around about the same time as AMD's other new chip, codenamed Zambezi.
Taylor also said that later this year the details of how the OS sees the Fusion chip and how the chips see memory and the OS will be revealed. µ
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Llano is the mainstream mobile series, not desktop. This certainly doesn't sound like a desktop platform to me.
"As reported earlier, AMD Llano accelerated processing unit (APU) will have four x86 cores based on the current micro-architecture each of which will have 9.69mm² die size (without L2 cache), a little more than 35 million transistors (without L2 cache), 2.5W – 25W power consumption, 0.8V – 1.3V voltage and target clock-speeds at over 3.0GHz clock-speed."
The performance numbers that Ontario puts out are of great interest. Maybe we'll see something from AMD that can compete in terms of battery life with the Atom for netbooks.
That I would welcome. I would love to have a netbook that actually had an open source driver for the video, etc. Time will tell.
pretty sure Zambezi is the desktop bulldozer core cpu, not part of the fusion line.
Asset Smart and better by design strategies must be paying off real nice..
Isn't there somebody AMD can sue to keep them a float?