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February 9th, 2010, 10:20
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To say that we've been waiting for AMD's Fusion CPU / GPU combo for a long time (http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/amd-announces-conesus-netbook-platform-ati-stream-brand-fusion/) would be an understatement (http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/). In fact, while AMD was busy talking about it (http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/amd-spells-out-the-future-heterogeneous-computing-bulldozer-an/), Intel swept in with its own Arrandale (http://www.engadget.com/tag/arrandale) and Clarkdale (http://www.engadget.com/tag/clarkdale) chips that pack graphical and computing processing into the same chip. Lest we were discouraged, then, AMD is making a return to form with news that its first Fusion APU (Accelerated Processing Unit) is about to start sampling to manufacturers, with a now definite (http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/next-gen-amd-scorpius-and-lynx-desktop-platforms-leak-out-fusio/) 2011 launch window. Codenamed Llano, this will be a quad-core beastie with intended operating speeds of more than 3Ghz and graphics parts borrowed from ATI's successful line of Evergreen GPUs (http://www.engadget.com/tag/radeon). That means DirectX 11, a feature Intel is unlikely to match, whereas AMD will have everything Intel currently does and more, with a 32nm production process, on-die integration (rather than just the same chip packaging), and power gating (http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/04/intel-teases-six-core-gulftown-discusses-tera-scale-computing/) allowing for dynamic per-core overclocking a la Turbo Boost (http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/07/intel-core-presser-32nm-core-i3-core-i5-and-core-i7-cpus/). It's been lonely without you AMD, now just fulfill this promise and all that absenteeism will be forgiven.AMD Fusion sampling soon, arriving in 2011 with Llano APU (http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/amd-fusion-sampling-soon-arriving-in-2011-with-llano-apu/) originally appeared on Engadget (http://www.engadget.com) on Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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To say that we've been waiting for AMD's Fusion CPU / GPU combo for a long time (http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/amd-announces-conesus-netbook-platform-ati-stream-brand-fusion/) would be an understatement (http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/). In fact, while AMD was busy talking about it (http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/amd-spells-out-the-future-heterogeneous-computing-bulldozer-an/), Intel swept in with its own Arrandale (http://www.engadget.com/tag/arrandale) and Clarkdale (http://www.engadget.com/tag/clarkdale) chips that pack graphical and computing processing into the same chip. Lest we were discouraged, then, AMD is making a return to form with news that its first Fusion APU (Accelerated Processing Unit) is about to start sampling to manufacturers, with a now definite (http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/next-gen-amd-scorpius-and-lynx-desktop-platforms-leak-out-fusio/) 2011 launch window. Codenamed Llano, this will be a quad-core beastie with intended operating speeds of more than 3Ghz and graphics parts borrowed from ATI's successful line of Evergreen GPUs (http://www.engadget.com/tag/radeon). That means DirectX 11, a feature Intel is unlikely to match, whereas AMD will have everything Intel currently does and more, with a 32nm production process, on-die integration (rather than just the same chip packaging), and power gating (http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/04/intel-teases-six-core-gulftown-discusses-tera-scale-computing/) allowing for dynamic per-core overclocking a la Turbo Boost (http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/07/intel-core-presser-32nm-core-i3-core-i5-and-core-i7-cpus/). It's been lonely without you AMD, now just fulfill this promise and all that absenteeism will be forgiven.AMD Fusion sampling soon, arriving in 2011 with Llano APU (http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/amd-fusion-sampling-soon-arriving-in-2011-with-llano-apu/) originally appeared on Engadget (http://www.engadget.com) on Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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