14 DAY TRIAL // As end-users may know, AMD plans to finally launch its first Fusion processors by the start of 2011, and the company was all to eager to show off the first ones at IFA 2010 in Berlin, namely the Ontario and Zacate, intended for mobile applications.
The Fusion architecture is AMD's technology that lets it put a DirectX 11-capable graphics solution on the same die as the CPU core or cores.
Now, with the last days of IFA enfolding in Berlin, Germany, the chip maker figured it may as well give some details and allow some pictures of the first APU to be taken.
Granted, a preview of these two was already made a few days ago, but Advanced Micro Devices now issued a blog post in which its provides the outline of the performance of both the Ontario and Zacate.
The two chips will enter mass production over the coming months and are built on Globalfoundries' 32nm manufacturing process.
Both have two x86 Bobcat cores, for processing, as well as the Integrated DDR3 memory controller, a Unified Video Decoder (UVD) and the aforementioned DirectX 11 GPU.
Zacate has a TDP (thermal design power) of 18W and will power desktop all-in-ones and notebooks, from mainstream to ultrathin and value models.
Ontario, on the other hand, will be used in netbooks and small form factor desktops, where its TDP of just 9W will prove a major asset.
“AMD plans to ramp production here in 2010, with systems available in early 2011. So here at IFA 2010, we’re both demonstrating the capabilities of low-power AMD Fusion APUs, and providing a little more information on the individual products,” states AMD's John Taylor in the aforementioned Blog Post.
“Brazos is the codename for the notebook, netbook and desktop platforms that will be built from the APU. But the APU itself comes in two flavors based on performance and (low) power draw,” he added.
