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Written by Michael Schuette
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Feb 20, 2011 at 09:58 AM |
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Acording to AMD, the Fusion APU signifies the biggest shift in PC technology since x86 processors were first invented 40 years ago. The word Fusion has been thrown at us for more years now than I care to count, Fusion this and Fusion that and the Future is Fusion and every time the take home message was that it’ll be the next one that is going to be more Fusion. By the time things finally started to materialize, it was no longer the “Fusion Platform” but things had scaled down to become an APU, short for accelerated processing unit. Very briefly, to bring everybody on the same page, the Fusion APU consolidates the Northbridge with a dual-core CPU and adds the functionality of a discrete-level DirectX 11 GPU into a single die. The total power budget of all involved discrete components would be 13W+25W+8W* respectively, for the individual components as listed above, however, the combined monolithic design only draws as much as 18W total under load and further, reduces die size from a cumulative 242 square millimeters (66+75+117) to a mere 75 square millimeters.
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Last Updated ( Feb 27, 2011 at 02:11 AM )
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Written by Michael Schuette
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Jan 16, 2011 at 06:38 PM |
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The biggest market segment in the PC industry can be quite simply be described as the one that does not use any discrete graphics and instead relies on an integrated display or graphics processing unit. Whether it is Atom or Ion or any other mainstream platform including laptops, the growing trend has been to consolidate the graphics with the chipset. At the same time, the chipset has more and more become part of the CPU by integrating the memory controllers and even at least some lanes of the PCie interface on the central processor. With the introduction of the Core i5 Lynnfield hybrid designs featuring two different dies on a single CPU package, Intel has taken this kind of integration to the next level by adding a GPU to the CPU, at least to the point where the two units were on the same package .
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Last Updated ( Feb 21, 2011 at 05:08 AM )
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Written by Michael Schuette
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Jan 02, 2011 at 12:37 AM |
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Sometimes the unveiling of a new CPU is exciting. Sometimes it is not. And then, sometimes, it is like fasten your seatbelt, close your eyes and hope you’ll withstand the G-force from the sheer acceleration of workloads. AMD had a few of those in the past, Intel, more recently with the Nehalem architecture and particularly that one seemed a tough act to follow, even though Lynnfield at least did not drop off the cliff with respect of upping the ante. Gulftown, well, that one is somewhat in a league of its own, courtesy of the 12 logical cores and also the price tag. Even Gulftown, though, has to yield in more than one application in comparison to today’s new kid on the block: Welcome Sandy Bridge and no, unlike Rocky Roads, Sandy is not a porn star.
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Last Updated ( Jan 17, 2011 at 01:16 PM )
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