CHIP DESIGNER AMD has been talking up some of the x86 design features for its first Fusion processor at the International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in San Francisco this week.

The upcoming 'Llano' Accelerated Processing Unit (APU) will see the joining of a 32nm silicon-on-insulator (SoI) Phenom II quad core CPU with a DirectX 11 capable GPU on the same die. This is a more sophisticated approach than Intel's at present, in which it simply adds a GPU chip to the processor package and calls that 'integrated'.

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