‘Fusion’ is AMD’s first attempt to create a CPU and GPU in one. When the project was first presented, and later when slides of a presentation was leaked, it was made clear that AMD would use a multi-core approach for the first generation and that the later generations of Fusion processors would become more and more integrated. The second generation would bring the GPU and CPU closer, but it would be third that would be the first true GPU-CPU. The socket for Fusion has been a bit illusive up till now. Guesses have included both Socket AM2+ and Socket S1, but it seems none of them will be cut it.
AMD will apparently introduce three new sockets, one for each generation; FM1, FM2 and FM3. As Fusion is a processor for embedded and mobile systems new sockets aren’t as annoying as on the desktop market, but still far from wanted by the OEMs.
By the looks of it TSMC will be producing the GPU portion as we reported earlier, and AMD and Chartered will be making the CPU portion, and then the CPU-GPU will be assembled as the two-die processor it is. Fusion is not expected until 2008.
