Fusion is the name of a new processor concept AMD has presented now that it has acquired ATI. Not surprisingly it’s about ATI’s graphics circuits and as the name reveals it’s a combination of two different technologies. It is namely a CPU/GPU circuits which ties together the procesor core and graphics circuit core on a silicon level, thus the name Fusion. It has presented its circuit as a new kind of x86 processor, which has a graphics circuit baked into the architecture. The Fusion processors are suppose to be used with all of AMD’s platforms; from the mobile market to servers and the first models are expected to arrive at the end of 2008, or start of 2009.
“With Fusion processors, AMD will continue to promote an open platform and encourage companies throughout the ecosystem to create innovative new co-processing solutions aimed at further optimizing specific workloads. AMD-powered Fusion platforms will continue to fully support high-end discrete graphics, physics accelerators, and other PCI Express-based solutions to meet the ever-increasing needs of the most demanding enthusiast end-users.”
AMD’s venture for combined CPU/GPU circuits is something we will follow very close and hopefully we will know a bit more as we close up on the launch of Fusion. What kind of performance you will be able to expect when you combine a CPU and GPU into one. At the same time it wouldn’t surprise us if Intel will release information about a similar project, as the rumors have stated.
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