AMD is living in a schizophrenic world where it's CPUs has been badly beaten by Intel's kind for many years, at the same time it moving from one great product to the next with its graphics cards. Intel will launch its first CPUs sporting an integrated graphics circuit next year. This is something AMD has been planning for a long time and even if it will take longer to introduce these it has a lot better GPU technology to bake into them.
AMD has now starting sharing more information on its so called Fusion architecture that will bring CPU and GPU together in the same package and it has officially confirmed that the first Fusion circuit will be made with 32 nanometer SOI technology (silicon-on-insulator).
Unlike Intel that will use 45nm technology for the GPU portion and only 32nm technology for the CPU core, AMD will be going full on to use 32nm for both circuits. But then again Fusion is not expected to appear on the market until 2011, in the form of Llano.
AMD Llano will house up to four processor cores based on the Phenom II architecture, paired with 4MB L3 cache. While the integrated GPU will be based on Radeon HD 5000 technology sporting DirectX 11. How much work AMD has to put into tailoring the Radeon GPU to make it fit next to the Phenom II cores remains to be seen. At the same we're wondering about the CPU performance since 2011 is quite a long time to go without any significant architectural updates.
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