It has been years that Intel is dominating AMD on all segments of the CPU market, leaving only few % to AMD, just enough to survive. however, things should change rather dramatically in 2011 with AMD APU, part of Fusion project, integrate true discrete GPU into CPU die: First products should arrive in 2011.
First APU will be dedicated to desktop and notebooks:
- New management of multi CPU resources.
- Support for new instructions sets: x86, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX...
- Advanced integrated power management and saving functions.
- 32 nm engraving.
Of course, it is too early to pretend that those chips will be able to compete to Sandy Bridge, but for sure the competition will definitely be stronger from AMD side, and this could benefit to the end users, customers. Last but not least, AMD also announced its Bobcat CPUs, able to work with less than 1 W and dedicated to mobile devices.
