Article: AMD Fusion Architecture and Llano
By: David Kanter (dkanter.delete@this.realworldtech.com), June 28, 2011 8:46 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
AMD has a grand vision for software and physical integration of CPUs and GPUs. The first Fusion generation focused on time to market, but created a solid foundation. Llano is a surprisingly attractive mid-range and value notebook product, due to the vastly enhanced power management. Future Fusion products will upgrade the CPU, GPU and media hardware and move towards a more tightly integrated computing model.
This article describes the Llano microprocessor, first discussing the key components, then AMD’s Fusion architecture for CPU/GPU integration and last the results for Llano products and expected future evolution.
http://www.realworldtech.com/page.cfm?ArticleID=RWT062711124854
Enjoy,
David
This article describes the Llano microprocessor, first discussing the key components, then AMD’s Fusion architecture for CPU/GPU integration and last the results for Llano products and expected future evolution.
http://www.realworldtech.com/page.cfm?ArticleID=RWT062711124854
Enjoy,
David
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| AMD Fusion and Llano article online | David Kanter | 06/28/11 08:46 AM |
| AMD Fusion and Llano article online | bakaneko | 06/28/11 10:39 AM |
| AMD Fusion and Llano article online | Gabriele Svelto | 06/28/11 10:52 AM |
| AMD Fusion and Llano article online | bakaneko | 06/28/11 11:35 AM |
| Cost | David Kanter | 06/29/11 01:02 AM |
| Cost | bakaneko | 06/29/11 02:52 AM |
| A GDDR5 DIMMs future? | WillNKate | 06/29/11 09:23 AM |
| A GDDR5 DIMMs future? | Dan Fay | 06/29/11 09:28 AM |
| A GDDR5 DIMMs future? | Gabriele Svelto | 06/29/11 09:41 AM |
| A GDDR5 DIMMs future? | Dan Fay | 06/29/11 10:20 AM |
| A GDDR5 DIMMs future? | Robert Williams | 06/29/11 12:51 PM |
| A GDDR5 DIMMs future? | David Hess | 06/29/11 05:47 PM |
| A GDDR5 DIMMs future? | Megol | 06/30/11 01:53 AM |
| A GDDR5 DIMMs future? | David Kanter | 06/29/11 10:28 AM |
| A GDDR5 DIMMs future? | Shankhadeep Shome | 07/01/11 06:08 PM |
| A GDDR5 DIMMs future? | EduardoS | 07/01/11 08:05 PM |
| A GDDR5 DIMMs future? | Shankhadeep Shome | 07/02/11 05:18 AM |
| A GDDR5 DIMMs future? | Mark Hahn | 07/02/11 09:56 AM |
| A GDDR5 DIMMs future? | David Hess | 07/02/11 12:15 PM |
| A GDDR5 DIMMs future? | Dan Fay | 07/02/11 12:24 PM |
| A GDDR5 DIMMs future? | EduardoS | 07/02/11 03:02 PM |
| Zero copy matters | David Kanter | 07/02/11 03:46 PM |
| Zero copy matters | Dan Fay | 07/02/11 03:59 PM |
| Zero copy matters | David Kanter | 07/02/11 08:46 PM |
| Zero copy matters | Gionatan Danti | 08/24/11 06:31 AM |
| Zero copy matters | David Kanter | 08/25/11 11:48 AM |
| Zero copy matters | Groo | 08/25/11 02:11 PM |
| Zero copy matters | anon | 08/25/11 06:04 PM |
| Zero copy matters | David Kanter | 08/25/11 10:29 PM |
| Zero copy matters | gallier2 | 08/26/11 12:19 AM |
| Zero copy matters | David Kanter | 08/26/11 03:09 AM |
| Zero copy matters | Groo | 08/26/11 08:11 AM |
| Zero copy matters | gallier2 | 08/26/11 08:16 AM |
| Zero copy matters | anon | 08/26/11 08:24 PM |
| Zero copy matters | David Kanter | 08/28/11 10:38 PM |
| Zero copy matters | gallier2 | 08/29/11 12:40 AM |
| Sharing a cache | David Kanter | 08/29/11 09:35 AM |
| Sharing a cache | Anon | 08/30/11 02:08 AM |
| nVidia Fermi has ~192KB on-chip memory per SM | Mark Roulo | 08/30/11 08:32 AM |
| nVidia Fermi has ~192KB on-chip memory per SM | EduardoS | 08/30/11 02:19 PM |
| GPU and CPU/GPU | David Kanter | 08/31/11 10:07 AM |
| FB data in tile based renderers | Rohit | 08/31/11 07:10 PM |
| GPU and CPU/GPU | Anon | 09/02/11 03:05 AM |
| nVidia Fermi has ~192KB on-chip memory per SM | Gionatan Danti | 09/01/11 02:30 AM |
| nVidia Fermi has ~192KB on-chip memory per SM | Anon | 09/02/11 02:45 AM |
| nVidia Fermi has ~192KB on-chip memory per SM | Gionatan Danti | 09/02/11 07:06 AM |
| nVidia Fermi has ~192KB on-chip memory per SM | Gabriele Svelto | 09/02/11 09:00 AM |
| nVidia Fermi has ~192KB on-chip memory per SM | Gionatan Danti | 09/02/11 09:18 AM |
| nVidia Fermi has ~192KB on-chip memory per SM | EduardoS | 09/02/11 01:57 PM |
| nVidia Fermi has ~192KB on-chip memory per SM | Rohit | 09/02/11 01:18 PM |
| Sharing a cache | David Kanter | 08/30/11 04:49 PM |
| Sharing a cache | Gabriele Svelto | 08/31/11 07:50 AM |
| Stream processing is dead | Brett Davis | 08/30/11 06:53 PM |
| Stream processing is dead | Will Smith | 08/31/11 05:00 AM |
| GPUs and caching | David Kanter | 08/31/11 02:28 PM |
| GPUs and caching | Brett Davis | 08/31/11 07:15 PM |
| Zero copy matters | Groo | 08/26/11 08:15 AM |
| "Zero copy" just means "One copy less than before" (NT) | iz | 08/26/11 01:40 AM |
| Zero copy matters | Gionatan Danti | 08/25/11 11:52 PM |
| AMD Fusion and Llano article online | Niceone | 06/28/11 02:10 PM |
| AMD Fusion and Llano article online | David Kanter | 06/29/11 12:55 AM |
| I believe I found a typo. | I.S.T. | 06/28/11 06:47 PM |
| Good catch | David Kanter | 06/29/11 12:53 AM |
| Good catch | I.S.T. | 06/29/11 10:43 AM |
| Thanks! | David Kanter | 06/29/11 10:53 AM |
| AMD Fusion and Llano article online | R_Mehta | 06/28/11 11:47 PM |
| AMD Fusion and Llano article online | Howard Chu | 06/29/11 05:23 AM |
| AMD Fusion and Llano article online | an | 06/29/11 07:51 AM |
| AMD Fusion and Llano article online | Niceone | 06/29/11 08:57 AM |
| AMD Fusion and Llano article online | David Kanter | 06/29/11 12:29 PM |
| AMD Fusion and Llano article online | David Kanter | 06/29/11 10:26 AM |
| AMD Fusion and Llano article online | GeertB | 06/29/11 07:29 AM |
| AMD Fusion and Llano article online | Dan Fay | 06/29/11 09:30 AM |
| Trinity | Azazel | 07/03/11 10:15 PM |
| Trinity | Antti-Ville Tuunainen | 07/04/11 03:18 AM |
| Trinity | Azazel | 07/04/11 06:56 AM |
| Trinity | David Hess | 07/04/11 08:07 AM |
| Trinity | someone | 07/04/11 10:44 AM |
| Trinity | David Hess | 07/04/11 02:06 PM |
| Trinity | someone | 07/05/11 07:25 AM |
| Trinity | Matt Waldhauer | 07/04/11 11:22 AM |
| Trinity | Azazel | 07/04/11 09:32 PM |
| Trinity - clock/power gating and cars | Matt Waldhauer | 07/05/11 01:03 AM |
| Trinity - clock/power gating and cars | Dan Fay | 07/05/11 07:07 PM |
| Trinity | David Kanter | 07/05/11 02:05 AM |



