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AMD Fusion System Architecture Detailed

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. Will it run Linux? by vigour · · Score: 4, Informative

    Will it run Linux?

    I'm not being facetious, I got stung by the lack of support by Nvidia for their Optimus graphics cards on my ASUS U30JC.

    Thankfully Martin Juhl has been working on a solution using VirtualGL, which gives us the use of our Nvidia cards under linux