The Outlook On AMD's Fusion Plans

PreacherTom writes "Now that AMD's acquisition of ATI is complete, what do the cards hold for the parent company? According to most experts, it's a promising outlook for AMD . One of the brightest stars in AMD's future could be the Fusion program, which will 'fuse' AMD's CPUs with ATI's GPUs (graphics processing units) in a single, unified processor. The product is expected to debut in late 2007 or early 2008. Fusion brings a hopes of energy efficiency, with the CPU and GPU residing on a single chip. Fusion chips could also ease the impact on users who plan to use Windows Vista with Aero, an advanced interface that will only run on computers that can handle a heavy graphics load. Lastly, the tight architecture provided by Fusion could lead to a new set of small, compelling devices that can handle rich media."

Stock tip ...

[guysmilee]

Invest in heat sinks! :-)

Airport fun

[LiquidCoooled]

how will homeland security like you bringing home a multi core Fusion through the gates?

"But, but its an AMD processor, built in Germany or Russia or somewhere"

"Teh internet told me it was more powerful than anything else out there."

"It would literally blow me away!"

So...

[FlyByPC]

Energy efficiency...
Project named Fusion...
...
Please tell me Pons and Fleischmann [wikipedia.org] aren't behind this?

Re:Disaster for Linux and OSS

[Kookus]

No, you just won't have the extra functionality of the graphics portion of the chip... Which, hey!, isn't any different then today!

Cyrix MediaGX

[vision864]

Cool amd is about to MediaGX themselves.

For the sake of competition...

[Wilson_6500]

Let's hope this fusion doesn't bomb.

How many blades?

[fahrbot-bot]

AMD will be making razors and shave gel? Sweet! How many blades, 4, 5 or scalable on demand?

Re:Upgrades ?

[adsl]

Or you could replace the whole Fusion chipset with the projected Nvidia chipset (release also late 2007) which attaches a CPU onto their graphic chipset.

Re:Yes but

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes, in all the VESA glory

Re:Not what you think

[organgtool]

My people are reading this as an integrated GPU and CPU.

So let me get this straight: you own slaves AND you force them to read Slashdot. You, sir, should be punished for crimes against humanity.