AMD Fusion Details Leaked

negRo_slim writes "AMD has pushed Fusion as one of the main reasons to justify its acquisition of ATI. Since then, AMD's finances have changed colors and are now deep in the red, the top management has changed, and Fusion still isn't anything AMD wants to discuss in detail. But there are always 'industry sources' and these sources have told us that Fusion is likely to be introduced as a half-node chip."

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AMDs problem.

[LWATCDR]

Was the rush to both a native quad core and quad core on the desktop.
Desktops matter less than less these days. Notebooks are more and more important. You don't put quad core in notebooks yet.
If AMD can pull off Fusion and have it compete with Intel in the laptop space they may actually do well again.
There current problem is they are not competing with the ATOM yet. The netbook may be the next big battle ground. Most people don't want a faster machine anymore. And most laptop users don't want faster laptop. What they want is one that runs longer and is smaller and lighter.

Re:AMDs problem.

[LWATCDR]

Gamers are like sports car buyers.
They are few, not a large profit base, and only important for their halo effect.
Now the manufactures do make some good money off the games because they soak them and get to recoup a large section of their RnD.
What gamers really help with is the Halo effect. A lot of gamers will buy Intel not because they are going to get the top of the line CPU but because they dream of someday getting that top of the line CPU so they buy a motherboard that will work with it.
Intel has better and faster CPUs but I will be that even with that most gamers are still buying dual-core cpus.

Oh and gamers don't buy the most expensive hardware. The HPC have them beat. Those are the people that really push out some bucks.
You think a top of the line gaming rig is expensive. Price a top of the line IBM POWER system :)