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Thursday, October 26, 2006

Cool Fusion: AMD's plan to revolutionise multi-core computing | Reg Hardware

Cool Fusion: AMD's plan to revolutionise multi-core computing | Reg Hardware: "What Fusion represents, then, is the shift of the integrated graphics core off the North Bridge and onto the CPU, improving the speed of its link to the main core and the memory controller, and reducing system power consumption into the bargain."

Not to mention allowing AMD to dynamically reconfigure the purpose of the cores on the multi-core die as needed. Need 2 of each? No sweat, 3 CPUs and a GPU? Also, no sweat. Remember as stated in this article--a GPU does PHYSICS. Not just graphics.