AMD's Fusion Processor Delayed Until 2011

[Apoptosis]

Just saw that Maximum PC is reporting this:

When it comes to AMD, the tech world is currently focused on the chip maker's Shanghai processors, which have started showing up at online resellers. Initially planned for a January 2009 release, AMD bumped up the launch of its first 45nm CPUs. But AMD isn't ahead of schedule across the board and the company's 45nm Fusion chip finds itself pushed back once again.

Initially planned for a 2009 release, AMD previously moved the tentative launch date to sometime in 2010 but has now canceled it altogether in its 45nm form. Instead, AMD's senior VP Randy Allen said the CPU/GPU combo won't materialize until 2011 in a 32nm version with the company's Llano core. Llano will sport four cores, 4MB of cache, DDR3 memory support, and an integrated GPU.

On a related note, AMD will actually start producing 32nm chips in 2010, but products won't start to hit the market in any quantity until 2011 starting with the Orochi core, another four-core chip but with 8MB of cache and aimed at the enthusiast desktop sector.

Not sure if that is true or not, but if it is that sucks.

[dipu]

At last sooner or later, a hard contender is coming all the way up to compete intel 32nm.
At least we can hope.

[stev]

Sounds like AMD is planning on a balanced future with their release and when the economy tends to pick itself up again.

Hopefully, this will allow a little more time to work out other issues with these chips.

It would be nice to talk about 128-bit CPU's vs. the 64-bit today. Years back, going from 8-bit to 16-bit was a milestone!

Just think how a 128-bit CPU with multi-cores and a GPU would be today. AMD once rocked Intels' boat being out the gate with 64-bit running true and fast. It left Intel back in the 32-bit days of the 386 to P5.

[dipu]

Sounds like AMD is planning on a balanced future with their release and when the economy tends to pick itself up again.

Hopefully, this will allow a little more time to work out other issues with these chips.

It would be nice to talk about 128-bit CPU's vs. the 64-bit today. Years back, going from 8-bit to 16-bit was a milestone!

Just think how a 128-bit CPU with multi-cores and a GPU would be today. AMD once rocked Intels' boat being out the gate with 64-bit running true and fast. It left Intel back in the 32-bit days of the 386 to P5.

That would be great with 32nm 8 Core 128 Bit Dinosaurs [They are not processors anymore]. I dont have run my PC for the whole night for rendering a small model in Maya or 3DMax !!