Fusion Processor by AMD Will Ship This Year

The microprocessor company AMD has released details about their new Fusion CPU. The Fusion combines both the Central Processing Unit and the Graphics Processing Unit into one quad-core processor. AMD merged with the computer graphics company ATI in 2006, and was looking to expand their share of the market. The concept behind the Fusion is pretty simple, they are just placing the two separate dies into one processor. AMD is among the companies that are looking for ways to break new ground in the netbook market.

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