AMD shows the first fusion APU Chip
Let me tell you more about APU First. APU is not CPU or GPU, its both, a GPU and CPU in 1 Unit. Its a whole new Family for AMD, the “AMD Fusion APU” (APU- Accelerated Processing Unit).
The chip was demonstrated in TAIWAN at Computex.
AMD Plains to release the Fusion APU Family around 2011.
Software developers will be able to get advantage over the APU with OpenCL from the ATI Stream SDK.
As a software developer, i’d have to say that it will be very hard for the AMD’s team to make the APU work for the users fully, but finally the results look promising.. i can’t even imagine how much processing power i will have with the APU… this will be a new era for the Video-Processing Technology, till now most of the Video-Processing tools used mainly the CPU for converting, there are only a few tools that use the GPU for processing/converting Videos… but when AMD releases the First APU, someone would have to make faster RAM, and eventually faster Hard-Disks!
Watch the Demonstration Video:
As a server administrator i would say that APU will make the Business way more easier for the newbies with Big ideas that require more processing power. APU will most likely make the servers cheaper, and faster. but thats just me.