AMD announces Fusion CPU/GPU

[peat moss]

The future of CPU/GPU computing

With the completion of AMD’s acquisition of ATI, AMD has announced its working on new CPU/GPU silicon that integrates the CPU and graphics processor into a single unit. The upcoming silicon is currently codenamed Fusion and is expected in the late 2008 or early 2009 time frame. AMD claims Fusion will bring:

AMD intends to design Fusion processors to provide step-function increases in performance-per-watt relative to today’s CPU-only architectures, and to provide the best customer experience in a world increasingly reliant upon 3D graphics, digital media and high-performance computing. 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.

Source: http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=4696

[mr. nails]

seems kinda gay. albeit oem pre-built systems? seems the most logical thing for them to do using this junk imo.

[true_neo]

So it is as I feared.
Ill just stick to finding all the solutions to my BSoD problems on the Dell forums, because no ATi will ever touch this computer.

[mr. nails]

no ATi will ever touch this computer.

why not? ati are good cards. biased nVidia fanboy?

and to add what i've previously said... seems EVERYONE is doing this dual cpu/gpu thing now. even nVidia are in the making of a cpu/gpu. omg.