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AMD demo Llano CPU/GPU hybrid and Brazos chips [Video]

, Oct 19th 2010 Discuss [0]

AMD has been talking about its Fusion technology for some time now, and the company got around to demonstrating it - together with holding up a big AMD Llano wafer - at a Taipei press conference this week.  SemiAccurate caught the video, together with a second demo showing AMD's Brazos platform in action, while Hexus grabbed some shots of a Llano validation board. Read The Full Story

AMD eye tablet CPU/GPUs after patchy quarter

, Oct 15th 2010 Discuss [0]

AMD has suggested it will look to differentiate its future tablet-centric chips by bolstering graphics and video technology, though the company expects netbook CPUs to be its main offering until the tablet market grows big enough to justify the R&D investment.  The comments, by AMD CEO Dirk Meyer, come on the heals of the company's latest quarterly financial report, in which AMD reported net losses of $118m on revenues of $1.62bn; that's a 2-percent sequential decrease, but a 16-percent increase compared to the same three month period a year ago. Read The Full Story

AMD Zacate teased: 18W AMD Fusion APU processor for budget PCs

, Sep 10th 2010 Discuss [0]

AMD are teasing a preview of their upcoming AMD Fusion APU - codenamed Zacate - which the company promises will pull high-end media and DirectX 11 capabilities into mainstream computers.  Zacate is a dual-core, 18W TDP processor with a separate on-die GPU, and while priced to suit budget notebooks and desktops is nonetheless able to stream Full HD video and delivery an accelerated browsing experience. Read The Full Story

AMD Fusion APUs debut at Computex 2010 [Video]

AMD have officially demonstrated their Fusion APU ("Accelerated Processing Unit"), in effect a combined CPU and GPU living on a single chip.  Fusion is capable of crunching through HD video and 3D graphics, including DirectX 11 games, and will first show up in Llano and Ontario form for mainstream desktop/notebooks and netbooks/tablets respectively. Video demo and overview after the cut Read The Full Story

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