Company AMD officially confirmed that the announcement of hybrid processors fusion will take place in 2009. The introduction of these processors with the integrated graphic core is planned for mobile computers, which traditionally win from the high degree of integration.
AMD also stated that it is not assembled to disrupt the existing interrelations order with TSMC and UMC: these companies will as before release graphic chips and chipset by AMD. And here AMD will be occupied By the release of central processors . In this situation it was complex to predict where will be released the processors fusion.
Associate today come after the Chinese new-year holidays and told about who will be occupied by the production of processors fusion. In their statements the associates refer to the Chinese resource economic daily news.
Thus, in AMD now are conducted developments for two technological directions: the first provides the production of processors fusion with the use of technology SOI, the second is oriented to the more primitive technical process, used at factories TSMC. In the first case finished processors can be oriented to the segment of market high-end, in the second case the purposeful niche of processors fusion is located in the segment of initial level.
It is not necessary to consider that the processors with integrated graphic core can prove useful only in budget sector : according to the estimation of Japanese sources, in the course of time all desktop processors AMD will have architecture of the class fusion. This means that , the expensive desktop processors will also get the integrated graphic core. In this case basic graphic can as before lie on the discrete video card.
To release processors fusion on SOI- technology will be occupied the company chartered semiconductor, which at present already produces AMD processors . Companies TSMC could have the OEM orders. But if AMD decides to release Fusion only on SOI- technology, then TSMC generally can remain without orders for fusion production .