by John Morris
AMD’s annual analyst’s day, which is taking place today, is an opportunity to see how the company’s roadmaps for its laptop, desktop and server processors have changed over the past 12 months. This year looked to be especially interesting because AMD recently divorced the design of its products from the manufacturing, now performed by GlobalFoundries, raising questions about the company’s ability to deliver on time. AMD sought to put that to rest, stating (repeatedly) that its upcoming chips were ahead of schedule and providing some new details on exactly what these products will offer.
The most interesting stuff won’t arrive until 2011 because that is when AMD will finally introduce notebook and desktop chips that combine multiple CPU cores and graphics on the same physical slice of silicon. AMD refers to these as APUs (Accelerated Processor Units) but the strategy is also known as Fusion, and it’s been closely watched because it was part of the justification for the costly ATI acquisition three years ago.
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