Advanced Micro Devices has announced their new family of Accelerated Processing Unit (APU), namely Fusion.In conjunction with advanced x86 processor cores this will deliver freedom to develop innovative applications that require enhanced hardware support. Advanced Processing Unit combines CPU (central processing unit) and GPU (graphics processing unit) in a single chip.These APUs are built to enhance multimedia applications,superior visual graphics experience and most importantly at a low cost. It will support windows 7 x86 along with DirextX 11.AMD claims that Fusion Series will bring affordable machines having these capabilities in to the market.They list many features Fusion offers including multi-monitor 3D gaming experience, stereoscopic 3D realism to 2D images and many other advanced features.A single processor support advanced gaming, HD video streaming and all other processing needs means it will be cheap and consume only less power, which are the basic requirements of mobile computing. So we can say that this innovation will change the future of mobile computing.

 After the acquisition of display giant ATI technologies in 2006 , AMD gives too much concentration on GPUs.As Intel is coming out with its 3D transistor technology the competitions between two firms reaches new heights. For existence in the Market what AMD needs a breakthrough. They hope that Fusion will bring better future.We too.

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