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Fermi is reverse direction Fusion

by on20 October 2009

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Next versions could have more CPU features

Nvidia's Fermi Powerpoint chip got a lot of attention earlier this month due to its impressive specification.

Since one could be able to run heavily modified OS on Fermi, Nvidia is one step closer to get a CPU, but not a traditional one. Nvidia agrees with ATI on at least with one thing, Fermi and especially the next generation Fermi want to get to the place that ATI promised us with Fusion.

Fusion for ATI is a CPU and GPU on one chip, fully integrated and interconnected, and for Nvidia Fusion will be Fermi 2 that will get even more CPU features. Nvidia will do that simply to run computation applications faster, but if it gets pushed, it can probable announce a chip that can run an OS and be a good computation GPU.

Intel is aware of that, and this is why it gets so agitated with Nvidia and its chipsets. 
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