AT ANALYSTDAY, Chekib Akrout of AMD spilled the beans on the chip company’s two new CPU cores, and Fusion. AMD’sBulldozer and Bobcat processors plus its memory controller that is called Fusion were all outed. …
Read Original Story: AMD uncovers Bulldozer, Bobcat and Fusion – SemiAccurate (satire)
Today AMD shared more details of its upcoming Fusion processors for the first time. Chekib Akrout, general manager of amd’s Technology group, said the company is creating two very different new x86 cores: Bulldozer, designed for servers and mainstream …
Read Original Story: AMD Describes Bulldozer and Bobcat Fusion Processors – PC Magazine
It’s got roughly one billion 32nm transistors, fabbed at Globalfoundries. Four CPU cores and a single graphics core. It’s what AMD calls an Accelerated Processing Unit (APU). And we’ll see it in 2011. Unfortunately that’s a bit late. …
Read Original Story: AMD's 2010 – 2011 Roadmaps: ~1B Transistor Llano APU, Bobcat and Bulldozer – AnandTech
If chip makers competed on the basis of code names rather than products then Advanced Micro Devices might have beaten Intel a long time ago. At its financial analystday Wednesday, AMD laid out its plans for a dizzying array of upcoming PC chips with …
Read Original Story: AMD Talks Bulldozer, Hemlock and Fusion – PC World
At its AnalystDay event today, AMD revealed its productroadmaps and goals for 2010 and 2011. Given the depth and scope of the eight-hour briefing, we’ve broken the data into two posts. In Part I, we’ll cover AMD’s competitive strategy and CPU/GPU …
Read Original Story: AMD's Analyst Day, Part I: Product Focus And Design Roadmaps Through 2010 – Hot Hardware
At their annual analystday event, AMD officials gave analysts and reporters a view of their roadmap going into 2011, when the company will introduce its first Fusion CPU/GPU processors, which they call APUs. AMD officials also shed light on their …
Read Original Story: AMD Opens Up Roadmap for PCs, Servers – eWeek
Anandtech.com reports that in 2011, AMD will be coming out with an Accelerated Processing Unit (APU). What is an APU exactly? Try four CPU cores married to a single GPU. The four CPU cores will be based on the existing Phenom II microarchitecture. …
Read Original Story: AMD Accelerated Processing Unit in 2011 – VizWorld.com
Advanced Micro Devices released new details on its long-awaited Fusion chips, which combine graphics and microprocessor functions into a single chip in a computing platform that will launch in 2011. Rick Bergman, senior vice president and general …
Read Original Story: AMD to launch combo graphics-microprocessor chips in 2011 – VentureBeat
AMD used its annual analystday to unveil its Fusion hybrid of computing and graphics, which the company characterized as an "APU," as well as productroadmaps of its key products. "The game has changed," said Dirk Meyer, …
Read Original Story: AMD Reveals Roadmaps, Details About Fusion CPUs – PC Magazine
THREE VERY INTERESTING tidbits snuck out in the Q&A session at the AMD analystday today. It seems that Fusion and the new cores have taped out and are at the fabs. The new cores were said to begin sampling to OEMs in 2010. …
Read Original Story: Bulldozer has taped out, the earth has moved – SemiAccurate (satire)