May 30, 2011 12:42 GMT  ·  By

The AMD Fusion technology was officially unleashed less than five months ago, but already is seems that the generation of chips with built-in graphics are selling better than most people probably expected.

There aren't many things that make a company's day quite as well as reaching a sales milestone, and this seems to be exactly what AMD is celebrating at the moment.

When it finally finished and presented the first Fusion accelerated processing units (APUs), the Sunnyvale, California-based company described the technology as a game changer.

Considering that it took AMD years to finish the chips, it would have been quite a problem if they failed to perform, marketing-wise.

Fortunately, the chips with built-in Radeon HD 6000, DirectX 11-ready graphics did turn out to be promising enough to various PC makers to adopt them.

This led to 3 million of them being sold until in the first quarter, and it looks like that feat has been topped thoroughly.

Going by recent reports, it seems that the 3 million turned into 5 million in the span of just under two months.

This would have been impressive even if the chips had stayed confined to the netbook market, seeing as how that segment has been slowing down as of late.

Nevertheless, the fact is that Fusion Brazos chips have been showing up in ultrathin laptops and even tablets, one of them just revealed by MSI.

Of course, some will no doubt say that 5 million is still a very small share of the overall processor market, but the fact that the number was reached in under five months speaks for itself.

The only downside to all this is that demand turned out to be more than Advanced Micro Devices has prepared for, so users shouldn't be surprised if they find the 'sold out' stamp over the chip for a while.