AMD Talks-Up "Llano" x86 Innovation at ISSCC

Samuel Naffziger, Senior Fellow at AMD, kicks off the company’s first blog dedicated solely to AMD’s Fusion family of processors. Mr. Naffziger wrote:

At AMD, we live by the mantra that the Future is Fusion and our global engineering teams are working aggressively to deliver the industry’s first accelerated processing unit (APU) in support of it. That said, the consumer trends that led AMD to embark toward developing APUs began years ago; the idea wasn’t born in either a CPU or a GPU, but was born in how consumers began using their PCs. Things like: streaming video, immersive gaming, 3D user interfaces, enhanced multimedia and other compute intensive tasks became the norm rather than the exception. As an engineer, my job is to help figure out how the nuts and bolts can best fit together to help improve the user’s experience; our team is presenting today at the International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in San Francisco some of the results of those efforts.

I wanted to share Kyle’s response to the aforementioned blog post (comments are moderated and the response has not been posted yet) and give you guys the opportunity to weigh in on the subject as well:

I appreciate the fact that you are sharing some cool power stuff, but this obviously is not going to keep Intel from kicking your butt in the 32nm market with its Westmere CPUs already selling. Where’s Bulldozer that we were promised in 2009?

Comments