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AMD Fusion processor now pushed back to 2011

I missed this one last week, but it seems that one of the many updates that came out of AMD's Financial Analyst day was that the company's much-discussed Fusion CPU+GPU hybrid processor will not appear until the company transitions to 32nm technology. That means no Fusion CPUs until 2011 at the earliest.

The Shrike platform, once planned to be some sort of next-generation Shanghai + integrated GPU on 45nm has now been canceled altogether. Long-term, AMD still claims to believe in the power of Fusion—just not on a 45nm process. This may be disappointing news to some, but it's probably a good move for the company. It was never very clear how AMD was going to economically deliver an integrated GPU on 45nm, even if it went for two separate dies on the same physical packaging. A Fusion part needs to be cheap enough that OEMs prefer it (as opposed to an integrated GPU + discrete processor), while simultaneously performing well enough to make customers want it.

Ars Technica

Posted by | Mon, Nov 17, 2008 - 10:27 AM