AMD's latest chipset Fusion gets India launch

Technology company, and one of the world's leading chipmakers, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), today launched a new chipset called the ''Fusion'' in India. Fusion will offer higher computing speed and better quality graphics than its antecedents.

According to reports, the new processor has a graphics card (GPU) and microprocessor (CPU) incorporated on a single chip, enabling PC manufacturers to develop new form factor for their machines.

Elaborating on the new chips' advantages AMD sources point out that consumers who currently have to choose between power and performance will find the new chip eliminating this problem as it has been developed incorporating both.

According to sources, India may soon have more than 11 systems based on the Fusion in the first half of 2011 itself, with the chip being taken up by brands like Sony, HP, Dell, Lenovo, Asus, MSI and Toshiba.

AMD sources say the Fusion family of Accelerated Processing Units (APUs) use a single-die design that combines multi-core CPU (x86) technology with a powerful DirectX 11-capable graphics and parallel processing engine.

The Fusion line also includes a dedicated high-definition video acceleration block and a high-speed bus that sends data across various types of processor cores within the same design.

Two versions of the APU will be available  - one based on power draw and another based on performance.