AMD Fusion System Architecture Detailed

Posted by timothy on Thursday June 16, 2011 @08:11PM from the why-when-I-was-a-boy dept.

Vigile writes "At the first AMD Fusion Developer Summit near Seattle this week, AMD revealed quite a bit of information about its next-generation GPU architecture and the eventual goals it has for the CPU/GPU combinations known as APUs. The company is finally moving away from a VLIW architecture and instead is integrating a vector+scalar design that allows for higher utilization of compute units and easier hardware scheduling. AMD laid out a 3-year plan to offer features like unified address space and fully coherent memory for the CPU and GPU that have the potential to dramatically alter current programming models. We will start seeing these features in GPUs released later in 2011."

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Re:The first problem that comes to mind.. by gad_zuki! · 2011-06-17 01:49 · Score: 1, Flamebait

Cheap people, gamers, power users, and businesses do. That's probably a good chunk of the desktop market right now.
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