Commenting on: AMD details out plans for “Fusion” of CPU and GPU

AMD has given out more details on it “Fusion” strategy of taking advantage of their combined CPU and GPU strengths.

The first product (codenamed Llano and expected in 2011) will feature Phenom CPU cores tightly integrated with a GPU that supports DirectX11/OpenGL and OpenCL.  Eventually this will be replaced by “Bulldozer” which will more tightly link the GPU math hardware into the multithreaded CPU core in a single-chip Accelerated Processing Unit (APU).

The Fusion approach AMD is taking, is designed to be developer- and existing render code-friendly, focused on open standards…