AMD Sampling Fusion 'Llano' Chips to Customers
AMD's first Fusion is now in the hands of AMD's customers for testing purposes.

AMD at its recent financial conference call revealed that it is now sampling its CPU+GPU Fusion designs, both internally and with partners.
"We plan to commence volume production in the back half of this year. We do now have internal samples of both of our initial Fusion designs, we are learning quite a lot, and are quite happy with what we see, and we started sampling to select customers, one of those two designs," said Dirk Meyer, chief executive officer and president of AMD, during the quarterly conference call.
The two new designs are Llano and Ontario, with the former being the one that's being sampled to select customers (perhaps even Apple). Less is known about Ontario, except that it'll be aimed at mobile devices rather than traditional computing.
"[Bobcat] is the brand new x86 micro-architecture, which first appears in the Ontario product which we talked about in the analyst conference. The Ontario product is really focused on, I’ll call it value PCs and netbooks, but the Bobcat technology and other technologies that we have in house are appropriate for lower power envelopes [and products like] pads. You’ll see Bobcat-based products show up the following year [in] these market segments," said Mr. Meyer.
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You must have a faulty memory.
did you forget an i as in ipads in that sentence? Hinting at something by chance?
This Llano stuff is HUGE, it is news. It can be a game changer for the chip market. The majority of the market is not high end, its low end and low power. If Llano works as it should AMD can grab a HUGE piece of the notebook and low end desktop market.
You must have a faulty memory.
This is good news for AMD ?
Huh? The i3's don't have any GPU built into them
I have seen it said that it will be ~HD5600's or HD5500's.
Nice
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As an upper-to-high end builder (4.3GHz E8400 overclocked rig and building an i930 rig next shooting for a 4.5GHz overclock), I don't care what or where the "majority" of the market is.
With that said, good for AMD and keep it up. Without them, we wouldn't have the i3/i5/i7 right now.
I really hope English isn't your first language because that whole comment was painful to read.
The Llano is a single chip. Where the GPU and the CPU have a direct line of communication. Which in theory, makes it very quick for a low power integrated GPU.
It also seems this has caught Apples attention, because they seem to loathe Intels integrated GPU, but are forced to use it for the i5 and i7.
I'm sure AMD looks at your post and says "Fascinating, but we do."
Way to narrow the playing field to post C2D to save your ass.