miércoles, 5 de enero de 2011

New AMD Chips Mean Good News For Netbook Gaming - MTV.com (blog)

Several years back technology developer AMD and graphics card manufacturer ATI merged in a pretty major deal. Now we're about to see the fruits of that partnership in the form of a powerful new PC processor which functions as a combination CPU and GPU, appropriately called Fusion.

What's so special about this Fusion chip? Well, CPUs with integrated graphics are nothing new. Unless your laptop happens to be a tricked out gaming rig you've probably got one. What's interesting about the Fusion is the horsepower: the CPU/GPU combo boasts DirectX11 support (think of each DirectX version as the next step in a console generation), 1080p video capabilities with HDMI out and a monster battery life, hovering around the 10 hour mark.

There are four versions of the chip in all, each with slightly different specs, but here's what you want to know in layman's terms: an HD-ready netbook that could support "Crysis."

AMD is putting the full court press on getting the word out on these things. They'll be showing them off at CES 2011 this week, and the company says that we'll be seeing tablets and other devices with this architecture arriving in the first half of 2011.

The Dx11 support alone puts this chip ahead of Intel's competing Atom chip. AMD's claim is that the Fusion could completely change the landscape of the netbook/tablet market. While I'd usually chalk a comment like that up as a hyperbolic PR line, the tech specs don't lie. This is a powerful piece of technology. Just say it over and over again in your head until the magnitude sets in: "'Crysis' on a netbook, 'Crysis' on a netbook." Wild, right?

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