Heinz68
11-17-09, 09:33 AM
At a reviewers’ day at the Lone Star facility in Austin TX last week, AMD chief technology officer Joe Macri waxed large on Fusion and the potential it has for the future.
He said some interesting things.
He said: “We went to multicore because we knew we could exploit that area. But with GPUs we needed to run things in parallel. We’re at three teraFLOPS today but they’re almost working in team, one on latency, and one of bandwidth.”
He said: “Fusion is the combination of many decades of computing. It’s the fusion of CPU and GPU compute within one processor, significantly enhances active/resting battery life, and provides high bandwidth IO.”
He continued: “On a single die you can do many things that two chips talking to each other on a narrow channel really can’t do. We believe why we’re in a really good position. We’re taking two world class teams and merging them together. The APU (accelerated processor unit) is truly a supercomputer on a chip. “
He explained: “If you can get more work done with less data transfers you get a significant saving on battery life. We’ll win with Fusion, Fusion is going to be the mantra and we’ll spread it everywhere from handheld devices to supercomputers.”
And: “The best hardware is hardware you don’t notice.”
AMD, he said, has some priorities and those are to win in the popular usage areas that are video, graphics, computers and continued battery life improvements.
He said: “The computing win will be a set of hardware that will allow content providers to produce applications, a bathtub filled with apps, some of which we can think about today, and some of which we can’t.”
He explained: “The apps we’re playing with today are the science fiction apps of yesterday. We’ll give you PCs that will run all day. I want the sleep mode to go away. All day compute is a mantra we have. We don’t want you to go have to plug your machine in every day. AMD couldn’t be successful as just a component company. Platform power is as important as core silicon power.”
He continued: “in 2010 we’ll see six hour battery life and in 2011 we’ll see an additional boost as Fusion comes in.”
Read more and see the picture slideshow at TGDaily (http://www.tgdaily.com/hardware-features/44609-amd-believes-fusion-will-knock-intel-for-six-or-five)
He said some interesting things.
He said: “We went to multicore because we knew we could exploit that area. But with GPUs we needed to run things in parallel. We’re at three teraFLOPS today but they’re almost working in team, one on latency, and one of bandwidth.”
He said: “Fusion is the combination of many decades of computing. It’s the fusion of CPU and GPU compute within one processor, significantly enhances active/resting battery life, and provides high bandwidth IO.”
He continued: “On a single die you can do many things that two chips talking to each other on a narrow channel really can’t do. We believe why we’re in a really good position. We’re taking two world class teams and merging them together. The APU (accelerated processor unit) is truly a supercomputer on a chip. “
He explained: “If you can get more work done with less data transfers you get a significant saving on battery life. We’ll win with Fusion, Fusion is going to be the mantra and we’ll spread it everywhere from handheld devices to supercomputers.”
And: “The best hardware is hardware you don’t notice.”
AMD, he said, has some priorities and those are to win in the popular usage areas that are video, graphics, computers and continued battery life improvements.
He said: “The computing win will be a set of hardware that will allow content providers to produce applications, a bathtub filled with apps, some of which we can think about today, and some of which we can’t.”
He explained: “The apps we’re playing with today are the science fiction apps of yesterday. We’ll give you PCs that will run all day. I want the sleep mode to go away. All day compute is a mantra we have. We don’t want you to go have to plug your machine in every day. AMD couldn’t be successful as just a component company. Platform power is as important as core silicon power.”
He continued: “in 2010 we’ll see six hour battery life and in 2011 we’ll see an additional boost as Fusion comes in.”
Read more and see the picture slideshow at TGDaily (http://www.tgdaily.com/hardware-features/44609-amd-believes-fusion-will-knock-intel-for-six-or-five)