Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Tue 5th Aug 2008 21:28 UTC, submitted by irbis
"AMD's plan to integrate a CPU and GPU on a single chip, codenamed Fusion, has been a hot topic since the CPU manufacturer first announced it planned to purchase ATI. AMD hasn't had much to say about Fusion lately, beyond confirming that the project exists and is still in development, but new rumors have surfaced over what form Fusion might take when it surfaces in 2009."
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"Fusion" chips aren't going to be graphics chips; they're going to be processors. A motherboard with a fusion chip is going to look like a motherboard with a IGP, except the IGP will be integrated with the CPU rather then on the board.
The idea is that having a GPU on die will shorten the distance between the CPU and the integrated GPU, and once a discreet graphics card is installed the on die GPU will act as a co-processor to the CPU or as an additional graphics resource, built in Crossfire.
Fusion is basically AMD's next gen laptop chip. The seeds of this have already been sown with AMDs nifty new technology that lets laptops run graphics off of a discreet graphics card or the IGP, switching between the two seamlessly.