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ATI Ontario 40nm Fusion has Bobcat core |
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Written by Fuad Abazovic
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Thursday, 05 November 2009 17:52 |
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Native 40nm bulk CPU
Back in September we mentioned that AMD has a mainstream Fusion part called Ontario. This is an APU, or accelerated processing unit that should bring a dual-core CPU and a DirectX 11 graphics core together.
We just recently found out some rather good news, Ontario in its 40nm won’t be based on Phenom / Athlon K10.5 45nm shrunk core. Originally we were thinking that AMD will simply take its dual-core in 45nm and will shrink it to 40nm bulk process, but we found out that the dual-core in that product is going to be Bobcat, a low-power dual core.
Bobcat was rumored to have one to 10W TDP and if you think about it, this guy will definitely go after Intel’s Atom. With its latest N4x0 series of Atoms, Intel already put graphics on the same chip, but if AMD does the job well, Ontario will be an all-integrated CPU plus GPU.
The only bad thing is that it is coming in 2011. Interestingly enough we wrote that such thing is coming back in 2007.
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