AMD Fusion sampling soon, arriving in 2011 with Llano APU
To say that we’ve been waiting for AMD’s Fusion CPU / GPU combo for a long time would be an understatement . In fact, while AMD was busy talking about it , Intel swept in with its own Arrandale and Clarkdale chips that pack graphical and computing processing into the same chip. Lest we were discouraged, then, AMD is making a return to form with news that its first Fusion APU (Accelerated Processing Unit) is about to start sampling to manufacturers, with a now definite 2011 launch window. Codenamed Llano, this will be a quad-core beastie with intended operating speeds of more than 3Ghz and graphics parts borrowed from ATI’s successful line of Evergreen GPUs . That means DirectX 11, a feature Intel is unlikely to match, whereas AMD will have everything…
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