Well, well, a new AMD roadmap promising a superior hybrid CPU/GPU chip sometime in the distant future. That doesn't sound like the same old
vaporware refrain we've
been hearing about Fusion
since 2006 at all, does it? Yep, everyone's favorite underdog is back in the paperwork game, and this time we've got a sheaf of pointy-eared details on the company's upcoming notebook plans, all culminating in the "Sabine" platform, which is wholly dependent on Sunnyvale actually shipping a mobile variant of the
delayed Fusion APU in 2011 once it finds the Leprechaun City. In the meantime, look forward to a slew of forgettable laptops getting bumped to the "Danube" platform, which supports 45nm quad-core chips, DDR3-1066 memory, and an absolutely shocking 14 USB 2.0 ports. Ugh, seriously -- does anyone else think AMD should suck it up, put out a cheap Atom-class processor paired with a low-end Radeon that can do reasonable HD video output, and actually take it to Intel in booming low-end market instead of goofing around with the
expensive,
underperforming Neo platform and a fantasy chip it's been promising for three years now? Call us crazy.
[Via
PC Authority; thanks Geller]
posted Apr 15th 2009 1:47PM
Caspian?
Geez, i bet Ahmadinejad will buy a few of those.
AMD's still around?
You can thank your low priced Intel chips they are.
Not for long it seems which is sad because we need competition or intel gonna overprice there cpus
AMD is doing so many problems in the the past years and they are not taking the NETbook markets seriously which is growing very fast, and there laptops CPU overheat to the point where most people dont even wanna bother with them
I hope AMD recover or something cause there showing is far less impressive than intel which is always 2 Steps ahead of them it seems
They should change focus at the market and focus and value/mainstream/cheap platforms over trying to compete with intel right now cause intel is way ahead of them
Yes, that certianly is good. Although I've got to believe that prices would be even lower if AMD was a bit more competitive.
Remember, AMD has now split into the two companies (AMD and GlobalFoundaries) so we may see improvements over the next few years, especially in the speed products reach market. Hopefully we will see improvements in AMD so competition between intel and AMD makes a top of the range Core i7 what we consider slow in just a couple of years.
We need competition, 2 is not enough. I dream of the day that a 3rd company will jump into the chip field. How about a company with a name and a company with a chip, like Samsung Chips that would sell as Google Chips.
VIA tried and they were beaten silly with a stick of frozen fail.
AMD 4 L1F3
what a slow L1F3 that would be.
A L1F3 fast enough to play Crysis at Very High settings with a Geforce GTX 260. And that's with the 2.2ghz Phenom 9550 and only 2gb of ram.
ATI 4 L1F3
fusion was in 2009, no fusion.
corei7 with icq and amd with hypertransport
both of them same , so is the competition on or off
love that the image has "Confidential, NDA required" at the bottom. Someone violated their NDA.
AMD is doomed, they should completely shut down their microprocessor business and concentrate on the graphics processor division.
John Doe is doomed, he should completely shut down his commenting business and concentrate on his school.
Tigris.Tiger in Greek.Nice
It's also a river :D
Ha yeah theyre all rivers, nice life skills
DDR2?
Puma?
Nothing new in 2009 :(
Engadget likes Intel. Engadget dislikes AMD....
Next up AMD sponsors Engadget, Engadget dislikes intel!
Wasn't fusion the name for the cpu with an integrated gpu? If so, someone wasn't paying attention to the 2011 Llano.
I'd prefer a Euphrates, tbh.
meh
Thanks for the Intel fanboy report.
Can you blame them?
This is not enough for AMD to recover from its massive slump. They need a massive push, and what they are displaying in that road map is not enough. They have no choice but to compete on price, but that doesn't make shareholders very happy.
They are a year behind on everything. The integrated CPU/GPU has to be available in 2010. The 32 nm has to be available in 2010. Chances are Intel will have a one year lead on AMD. A year is an eternity.
It depends how you look at it.
Phenom II is very competitive price/performance. From what i've found in benchies the biggest difference between i7 and Phenom II is memory bandwidth. A new DDR3 Phenom II running at 3.2GHz (the 955) has been found on some e-tailer this week, which should further improve its position.
Turion is a complete flop this and last year, but the 45nm shrink and class-leading IGP could see it become a low to mid range hit. Maybe even find its way into gaming notebooks.
Neo has had unfair press from the get go, everyone is basing their opinions on the platform by how the DV-2 performs. The DV-2 is just a bad piece of kit. Future models with the IGP will surely run cooler and be less of a strain on battery.
Also with the new manufacturing spin-off they are much more efficient, hell they even got Shanghai out early and Phenom II out dead on time :D
I am confused. The 780G and 790GX are intergrated GPU's that do HD video damn well. and AMD has several low end GPU's that do full HD. Engadget.... pull your pants up, your bias is showing.
An integrated GPU on the chipset is not new. They are talking about a GPU on the CPU, which would help with power consumption quite a bit, and reduce the overall MB size.