AMD Fusion Chips: More than 1 Million Shipped [AMD Says it has Shipped More than 1 Million Fusion Accelerated Processing Units to Various Manufacturers]

Posted on TFTS by J. Angelo Racoma on Monday, 24. January 2011 under: Computers & Computing, PCs, Notebooks, Netbooks & Tablets

AMD’s fusion chips are its answer to low-power, integrated video chipsets that its rival Intel has long been dominating. While the chip has only been launched recently, AMD claims it has already shipped a million units.

Speaking at an interview, AMD’s interim CEO Thomas Seifert says that the company has shipped orders of a million Fusion chips to its manufacturer-partners, which include big-name brands ilke Acer, Asus, HP, Dell, Lenovo, Sony, Samsung, MSI and Toshiba.

These include low-power Brazos chips and higher-power Zacate chips. Chips made on AMD’s Fusion line combine CPU and graphics processing units on a single chip–much like Intel and NVIDIA’s ION.

Even with this announcement, though, it’s evident that no actual consumer notebook, netbook or tablet is yet shipping with AMD’s new Fusion ships. But with a million shipped chips at this point, this means manufacturers are keen on giving Intel some serious competition, probably at a lower price, too.

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