ATI and AMD Announce Fusion CPU+GPU October 26, 2006
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It's been three months since AMD and ATI made the nasty, and what do they have to show for it besides a big mess and the broken hearts of nVidia and Intel? Something called the "Fusion", a CPU/GPU hybrid chip.
Thanks to their respective expertise, ATI and AMD can come together and make a CPU that's capable of handling many GPU tasks. Instead of offloading graphical functions to the card, which then has to be piped back to the CPU for additional computation, many things can be done "in house", saving time and making your apps faster. These Fusion CPU/GPUs aren't going to be available until late 2008/early 2009, so whatever you purchase now should be safe from obsolescence until then.
Press Release [AMD via Randomly Accessed]
Editor and Contributor | Martin Lynch
Contributor | Tamlin Magee
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Didn't they use this to power the Delorean in Back to the Future?
Yeah, I just brought up this comment page, then realized the guy who commented said before me what i going to ask. Yeah, I'm pretty sure it is the name of the fuel source that Doc puts 'new' on the Delorian at the end of the first movie. He puts garbage in it then whisks Marty and Jennifer away to save their kids. Then it leads to (at the time) the suspenseful and agitating, "To be continued".