http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/ Engadget Comments for More details leak on AMD's Fusion platform, Fusion now officially the Palm OS II of CPUs http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/Aug 4th 2008 10:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/
This new form isn't just 1's and 0's....its 1's 0's and 2's which makes it a tri-state fluctuating processor.

they call it...

TRIGITAL]]>Aug 4th 2008 11:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/Aug 4th 2008 11:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/
If Intel is the 800 lb. gorilla of processor manufacturers, then AMD is an 8 ounce Capucin monkey that fits in a teacup. What friggin' company uses AMD processors in quantity, anyway? AMD is so weak now, they might get bumped off by Apple's P.A. Semi.]]>Aug 4th 2008 11:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/Aug 4th 2008 11:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/i build systems for my friends, and a $45 2.3ghz dual core is awesome for keeping costs down.]]>Aug 5th 2008 12:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/
@Mehdi: your money is obviously in the wrong hands

My money has much higher value in AMD's

I'm now running the tri-core Phenom and believe me, I couldn't ask for more.

will upgrade to quad-phenom as soon as possible, AMD FTW!]]>Aug 5th 2008 12:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/Aug 5th 2008 10:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/Aug 4th 2008 11:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/Aug 5th 2008 12:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/Aug 5th 2008 9:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/
Of course not... how silly of me.]]>Aug 4th 2008 11:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/Aug 4th 2008 11:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/Aug 4th 2008 11:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/Aug 5th 2008 1:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/Aug 4th 2008 11:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/Aug 4th 2008 11:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/Aug 4th 2008 11:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/Aug 4th 2008 11:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/Aug 5th 2008 8:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/Aug 4th 2008 11:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/
]]>Aug 4th 2008 11:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/Aug 5th 2008 12:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/Aug 5th 2008 12:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/hope so :P]]>Aug 5th 2008 12:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/Aug 5th 2008 12:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/ Vaporware snarkiness aside, I have mixed feelings about this new road map addition.

AMD is doing what they did the last time they took the lead away from Intel, take a chance. Or rather a risc. AMD went RISC when intel was pushing CISC. They went x86 compatible 64-bit when Intel was trying to convince people it was Itanium or an abacus. DDR in lew of RAMBUS. Once again, they're trying something new...this whole fusion deal. I'm pleased with the innovation (complacency seems to be what keeps biting BOTH chipmakers in the rear), but the use of Phenom cores disturbs me. Pentium D vs. X2 pretty much proved that simply adding more cores doesn't help if your opposition can add just and many (or more) and core for core they're still better. And I think Phenom has not proved to be a match for Core2.

But I'm encouraged to see AMD entering the world of fabbing below 65nm. We can hope I suppose that the Phenom will improve with the shrinkage. And I think dedicating the cores is a good way to leverage multicore technology in single thread software world...

As far as AMD having a foot in the grave and customers...meh. Things are definitely not looking too god for them now, but they are still in the game. HP still uses them, and they are currently the number one PC maker in the US (of course they probably sell more Intel CPUs, but still...).

Phenom was kind of a flop, but so was Pentium D. But what came next for Intel ? Core! And soon after Core2. If AMD has anywhere near as much success with Fusion, it will be quite a fight from there on out...]]>Aug 5th 2008 4:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/
We are yet to witness the holy grail of mobile computing where every netbook,notebook and UMPC will have mini express card slot that can accept GPU extension for HYBRID crossfire with their fusion chip. Either for video transencoding or for a major boost in your gaming experience.

Hope this fusion is the first step towards that.

NB: 3850 AGP version only slightly below the 3850 PCIe version. Hope this PCIe mini cardbus can accomodate HYBRID gaming experience with their tiny bus.]]>Aug 5th 2008 5:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/
husssh to all fan bois and hurray to OddManOut]]>Aug 5th 2008 10:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/Aug 5th 2008 12:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/Aug 5th 2008 12:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/Aug 5th 2008 1:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/Aug 5th 2008 1:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/Aug 5th 2008 1:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/
AMD Fusion is what I've said before....a very cheap low budget processor. I can't believe people actually believed Fusion would make NVIDIA go out of business.

I want AMD to stick around by all means but sadly AMD doesn't give us anything to get excited about in the foreseeable future. They are only competitive in the $130 and under price range. Heck, I just recently bought an AMD Athlon 64 5000+ X2 Black Edition because for under $100, they have the best bang for the buck. But my Q6600 which I picked up a long time ago still beats AMD's highest end offering today sadly. ]]>Aug 5th 2008 1:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/Aug 5th 2008 3:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/Aug 5th 2008 4:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/Aug 5th 2008 7:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/
itd be a monopoly then.

then your stupid intel chips would cost a fortune idiots. ]]>Aug 5th 2008 8:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/

I love some vaporware, like the palm os, but why don't you wait until their first official release date to call it vaporware?


"This product is due for release in 2010."
"Look at these leaked production notes... Vaporwarez for evaz."
"This product, fusion, will be released on April 12, 2010 at 200 per unit volume of 1000 plus."
"VaporWAREZ."
"We've sold 1 million units to date."
"vaporwares?"



Assuming they keep on trucking, you guys are just going to make yourselves look dumb. This is like the foleo debacle. You guys rode them into the ground for what, with a couple of changes, would have been the first Eee pc.]]>Aug 5th 2008 8:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/
That means there's no profits there yet.]]>Aug 6th 2008 11:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/
thats how I imagine it]]>Aug 5th 2008 8:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/Aug 5th 2008 12:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/Aug 5th 2008 5:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/more-details-leak-on-amds-fusion-platform-fusion-now-officiall/Aug 6th 2008 1:08PM