Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is zeroing in on notebook computers as the initial target for its Fusion processors, which will merge X86 and graphics cores and will ship in 2009. AMD believes the integration will power notebooks with "significant, though not dramatic" improvements in performance per watt, outgunning offerings from archrival Intel Corp. AMD announced the Fusion program when it completed the acquisition of graphics chip designer ATI Technologies Inc. in October. At that time, it said the Fusion chips would target a broad range of products, from palmtops to supercomputers. Now the company is getting more specific about its plans.

"Our plan is to focus on mobile to deliver significant increases in performance per watt. We will start in mobile and hopefully integrate upward" into desktops, Steve Polzin, chief platform architect at AMD, said in a keynote address at the DesignCon Conference here last week. With this strategy, AMD aims to recreate its success with its Opteron CPUs, which integrate a memory controller and standard cache-coherent interconnect, easing the job of building multiprocessing servers as well as multicore processors. The integration has helped AMD grab a slice of the server market from Intel.

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Quote this comment Reply to this comment #1 Posted by Kushan on 05 Feb 2007 - 16:17
Am I the only person that's a bit unsettled by this?
Fusion is sounding more and more like a rehashed integrated graphics chipset and less like a real, competitive and powerful product.
(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #2 Posted by TruckWEB on 05 Feb 2007 - 17:39
And by 2009, Intel will have something to beat AMD.

Quote this comment #2.1 Posted by Sp3ctranova on 07 Feb 2007 - 02:30
Case closed.
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