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AMD’s “Shrike” Platform

Immediately after AMD and ATI consummated their 2006 merger, their first order of business was to announce plans and a timeframe for the first true offspring of their corporate union: a CPU/GPU fusion product called, aptly enough, “Fusion.” This Fusion idea has taken more than one shape in AMD’s roadmaps since it was first announced, and I won’t summarize that history here, though it is worth recalling that AMD had been planning to use a newly developed processor core, codenamed “Bulldozer,” for the CPU half of Fusion.

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But in a financial analyst day meeting early this past December, AMD revealed that the company’s first Fusion product would “use existing CPU core and GPU core technologies,” suggesting that Bulldozer had gotten the boot in favor of a core from AMD’s current lineup.

In a recent InfoWorld interview, AMD confirmed that Fusion will be a dual-core design based on the Phenom core in its initial incarnation. There’s still no word on the GPU that AMD will pair with Phenom as the second core on the die, but apparently something will be announced relatively soon.

So now that we know that Fusion will combine a Phenom core with an as-yet unannounced GPU core, we can put together the following picture of AMD’s mobile “Shrike” platform, due out in the second half of 2009. (leer más…)

Fuente: [arstechnica]

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