AMD's Fusion Processor Combines CPU and GPU

ElectricSteve writes "At Computex 2010 AMD gave the first public demonstration of its Fusion processor, which combines the Central Processing Unit (CPU) and Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) on a single chip. The AMD Fusion family of Accelerated Processing Units not only adds another acronym to the computer lexicon, but ushers is what AMD says is a significant shift in processor architecture and capabilities. Many of the improvements stem from eliminating the chip-to-chip linkage that adds latency to memory operations and consumes power — moving electrons across a chip takes less energy than moving these same electrons between two chips. The co-location of all key elements on one chip also allows a holistic approach to power management of the APU. Various parts of the chip can be powered up or down depending on workloads."

The simpsons

[Anonymous Coward]

Heh. They should use Apu from the Simpsons in their advertising...

Re:heat

[Anonymous Coward]

Perhaps you should email your insights the CEO of AMD. I'm sure he'll be grateful for the heads up from some retarded cunt on slashdot that his huge array of engineers and scientists have being building a chip that doesn't work for the past 5 years.

APU

[Capt James McCarthy]

Looks like the Quickie Mart has a lawsuit on their hands.

Re:Enough with hyping eye candy

[FreonTrip]

If you think that's bad, you can still buy Radeon 7000 cards in lots of places, and they're fully a decade old. Look around a bit more, and you can find Rage128 Pro and - yes, your nightmares have come back to haunt you - 8 MB Rage Pro cards at your local CompUSA store. For the right market, old display technologies can still easily be good enough - mach64 support in X.org is good 'n' mature at this point, and if you're running a command-line server with framebuffer support it's easily good enough.

Re:heat

[couchslug]

"retarded cunt" is completely offensive and a terrible distraction which hinders your message.

In the interest of sensitivity, please use the term to "mentally challenged cunt" in future.

Thank you.