Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Advanced Micro Devices said it will deliver a wide range of merged x86 CPUs with on-board graphics accelerators starting in late 2008.
AMD announced its so-called Fusion program Wednesday (Oct. 25) upon the formal completion of its $5.4 billion acquisition of graphics and chip set designer ATI Technologies Inc. The merged company will ship versions of the combined processors for laptops, desktops, workstations, servers and consumer electronics devices geared for emerging markets.
The move could potentially give upstart AMD an edge over its much larger rival, particularly in a handful of generally small but potentially profitable sectors such as high-end consumer gaming machines, low-end consumer desktops and some technical computing environments.
The Fusion chips aim to increase performance-per-Watt for applications such as 3D graphics, digital media and technical computing. In a press statement, AMD suggested the processors will leverage both its coherent HyperTransport interconnect as well as PCI Express to link to external co-processors.
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