AMD Announces Fusion Chips; Big Performance in Very Small Package
By Craig Lloyd on Jan 4th, 2011 at 1:24PM
In a direct effort to best Intel’s Atom chip for netbooks, AMD has announced their Fusion chips. To put it quite simply, the chips are a CPU/GPU combo (just like Intel’s Sandy Bridge) and according to AMD, they offer better CPU performance, better GPU performance (with DirectX11 support), dedicated 1080p HD video processing with HDMI out, and a monstrous 10+ hours battery life. Four models of the chip will be available, the highest being a dual-core 1.6GHz chip and the lowest a single-core 1.2GHz.
A couple of netbooks sporting the Fusion chips have already been announced (HP Pavilion dm1 and the Lenovo X120e) and we should definitely see more pop up within the coming days. AMD even says that Fusion tablets should be coming within the first half of 2011.
