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AMD-ATI to make a GPU on a CPU

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AMD-ATI to make a GPU on a CPU

Or a CPU on a GPU

By: Fuad Abazovic Tuesday 15 August 2006, 08:13
ENGINEERS from AMD and ATI companies are going to start working on a unified chip that will have GPU and CPU on a same silicon. We learned this from high ranking sources close to the companies, more than once.

Don’t get too excited as it will take at least eighteen months to see such a dream come true.

This is the ultimate OEM chip, as it will be the cheapest way to have the memory controller, chipset, graphics function and CPU on a single chip. This will be the ultimate integration as will decrease the cost of platform and will make even cheaper PCs possible.

CPUs are being shrunk to a 65 nanometre process as we speak and the graphics guys are expected to migrate to this process next year. The graphics firms are still playing with 80 nanometre but will ultimately go to 65 nanometre later next year.

DAAMIT engineers will be looking to shift to 65 nanometre if not even to 45 nanometre to make such a complex chip as a CPU/GPU possible.

We still don’t know whether they are going to put a CPU on a GPU or a GPU or a CPU but either way will give you the same product. µ


This will be huge for the industry, and relatively easy to do i would think. With their quad core CPUs you could take one or two of those cores and make GPUs out of them depending on environment. Lower end boxes could have dual core with one of each. Shared memory so the GPU won’t need its own. Everything works off the same memory controller and you have cleaner access to the hard-drive as you probably won’t need a chipset.

AMD is still hot!!