Fusion Complete: AMD's "Brazos" Promises Fierce Challenge to Atom

[Daniel ~]

Zacate and Ontario are only the first two members of AMD's APU invasion, which will soon hit netbooks and notebooks as well.

APU is two Bobcat cores and a DX11 GPU

Intel's Atom processor has long enjoyed a reign as undisputed king of entry-level netbooks and ultraportables. AMD is at last prepared to challenge that position with its long-awaited "Fusion" processor.

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[Gizmo]

In the time-honored tradition of corporations everywhere, AMD has denied reality until finally forced to accept it.

For the last what? 4 years? AMD have said "Yeah, the netbook segment where Intel's Atom lives really is a fad segment and we don't feel a need to build a product specifically for it."

Now suddenly, they are ALL ABOUT the netbook segment.

One just has to shake one's head in wonder.

[cloasters]

Took them long enough to catch up! It'd be great if this is a genuine challenger to Atom procs. If so, I hope they sell millions of them, they really need the bucks.

[cloasters]

Being the second best seller has got to rankle now and again.