AMD avoiding Larrabee route on road to CPU/GPU "Fusion"
- Friday, 13 November 2009 11:02
At a financial analyst day on Wednesday, AMD gave out a little more detail on its "Fusion" plans, making the word "Fusion" the centerpiece of its marketing push for the post-honeymoon, post-GlobalFoundries, AMD/ATI relationship. The first product to feature both a CPU core and a GPU core on the same die is codenamed Llano, and will appear in 2011. Llano features one or more Phenom-derived CPU cores, combined with a GPU that supports DirectX11 and OpenCL.
But AMD was at pains to stress that Llano is an intermediate step, and is not the end-of-the-road for its Fusion program. The real goal of Fusion is to merge the CPU and GPU entirely, and to bring that combination directly in contact with the OS. (See the red arrow in the slide below.)
