AMD is going to extend in Fusion strategy in the following years, the company planning to migrate all its processors to an APU (accelerated processing unit) design in 2012, when the company also wants to introduce the first Bulldozer processor with integrated graphics.
Not so many details are known at this point about these upcoming CPUs, but an AMD roadmap does reveal a few interesting tidbits of information that give us a short glimpse into the future.
As you most certainly know by now, 2011 will mark the introduction of the Bulldozer and Llano architectures.
However, these are only the first step in AMD's renewal strategy that calls for an entire line of new chips to be unveiled in 2012.
Starting with the mobile segment, 2012 will see the introduction of the Krishna and Wichita APUs that feature one to four enhanced Bobcat cores and an integrated DirectX 11 GPU.
These chips are meant to replace the just introduced Zacate and Otario APUs, and are built using the 28nm manufacturing process.
Moving to the mainstream and performance notebook space, the yet to be released Llano chip will be replaced by the Trinity APU, which features two to four cores as well as DirectX 11 graphics.
However, unlike its predecessor, Trinity will be based on the Bulldozer architecture, further increasing the IPC of the chip.
In the desktop space, Bulldozer is also set to make a splash as two of the three chips to be launched will be based on this architecture.
Dubbed Komodo and Trinity, these chips feature 8 and 2-4 cores, respectively, and come with DirectX 11 compatible GPUs.
Both of them are built using a 32nm manufacturing process.
The third desktop chip following to be launched by AMD is destined to be used in AIO and small form factor PCs, and packs 2 to 4 enhanced Bobcat cores as well as DirectX 11 graphics.
