14 DAY TRIAL // Even though the official release of its Fusion platform only happened a relatively short while ago, Advanced Micro Devices seems to have already shipped quite a solid number of accelerated processing units.
A large amount of sales in a short time after official launch automatically places a certain product in the successful/popular/high-quality category.
Apparently, something of the sort has happened to AMD's Fusion architecture, or so it has been stated.
AMD recently held a conference call with financial analysts in regards to the past quarter, the same conference call that supposedly provided the info about the revised Bulldozer/Llano roadmap.
In this call, the outfit said that about 1 million Fusion APUs have already been shipped.
"Industry momentum for Fusion is strong and growing. OEM adoption of Brazos is excellent. We shipped more than 1 million Brazos platforms in its debut quarter to world class OEMs including Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo, MSI, Samsung, Sony and Toshiba," said Thomas Seifert, interim chief executive officer of AMD.
"Customers are discovering that Brazos is ideal for more than notebook platforms, earning design wins in everything from tablets to Internet ready set-top-boxes, thin clients and point-of-sale kiosks,” he added.
What's more, in addition to 'just' the APUs, the outfit claimed to have reached a total of 35 million sold DirectX 11-capable GPUs (graphics processing units).
"We shipped over 35 million DX11-enabled GPUs to date," Mr. Seifert went on to saying.
"In the graphics chips segment, revenue for the quarter was $424 million. The sequential growth of 9% was mainly due to double-digit growth unit sales through the [add-in-board] channel due to the success of our second generation DirectX 11-enabled GPUs, the AMD Radeon HD 6800- and 6900-series, as well as seasonally higher game console revenue," he concluded.
So far, Fusion has only been represented by the Ontario and Zacate APUs whose demand was fueled by their rising share in the evolving notebook market. What remains to be seen is how Brazos does now that it has been unleashed.