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AMD in the event in-house Technical Forum yesterday showcased the first Fusion processor example is a type of APU (which stands for Accelerated Processing Unit - a combination of GPU and CPU) called AMD Fusion that can be fully functional Llano (video below).Hybrid CPU and graphics are given a full workload and can smoothly perform video decode 1080p Blu-ray, calculate Pi up to decimal 32 million and generate particle effects using the graph and the function of the GPU not the CPU chip common / main processor.

A check of statistics DirectCompute see it running at about 30 GigaFLOPS to the combined speed,or several times faster than what would be normal processor.

Llano Design is targeted at desktop and notebook normal size and will have as many as four cores in addition to 11 DirectX (OpenGL 4.0) graphics core is integrated directly into the architecture. AMD has promised that this platform will be one of the first 32nm designs and will run significantly faster than even cooler 45nm hardware used today.

Roadmap AMD's current processor to schedule the first Llano will be marketed in the first half of 2011 and will make it a direct competitor to Sandy Bridge, the Intel architecture in which graphics chip is embedded in the main.