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images/news/amd.jpgAMD today updated its roadmap and promises "supercomputer in your lap"
The most interesting stuff won’t arrive until 2011 because that is when AMD will finally introduce notebook and desktop chips that combine multiple CPU cores and graphics on the same physical slice of silicon. AMD refers to these as APUs (Accelerated Processor Units) but the strategy is also known as Fusion, and it’s been closely watched because it was part of the justification for the costly ATI acquisition three years ago. But AMD isn’t sitting around waiting for 2011. In the past year, the company completed the transition of its processors to 45nm, launched the industry’s first 40nm DirectX11 GPUs and introduced a six-core Opteron server processor. Next year AMD plans to release new enthusiast and mainstream laptop and desktop platforms, DX11 notebook GPUs and a 12-core Opteron. These are more evolutionary products than the APUs in 2011, but they should keep AMD competitive. In particular, AMD is promising next year’s laptop platforms will deliver at least a 25% improvement in both performance and battery life.
read on at ZDNet
The most interesting stuff won’t arrive until 2011 because that is when AMD will finally introduce notebook and desktop chips that combine multiple CPU cores and graphics on the same physical slice of silicon. AMD refers to these as APUs (Accelerated Processor Units) but the strategy is also known as Fusion, and it’s been closely watched because it was part of the justification for the costly ATI acquisition three years ago. But AMD isn’t sitting around waiting for 2011. In the past year, the company completed the transition of its processors to 45nm, launched the industry’s first 40nm DirectX11 GPUs and introduced a six-core Opteron server processor. Next year AMD plans to release new enthusiast and mainstream laptop and desktop platforms, DX11 notebook GPUs and a 12-core Opteron. These are more evolutionary products than the APUs in 2011, but they should keep AMD competitive. In particular, AMD is promising next year’s laptop platforms will deliver at least a 25% improvement in both performance and battery life.
read on at ZDNet
