Microsoft beats Intel, AMD to market with CPU/GPU combo chip

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PostPosted: Tue Aug 24, 2010 6:32 am    Post subject: Microsoft beats Intel, AMD to market with CPU/GPU combo chip Reply with quote

"Produced on the IBM/GlobalFoundries 45nm process, it's fair to say that the new SoC (pictured above) is the first mass-market, desktop-class processor to combine a CPU, GPU, memory, and I/O logic onto a single piece of silicon."
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 24, 2010 7:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

This link http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2010/08/microsoft-beats-intel-amd-to-market-with-cpugpu-combo-chip.ars
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 24, 2010 12:29 pm    Post subject: Re: Microsoft beats Intel, AMD to market with CPU/GPU combo Reply with quote

nada wrote:
"Produced on the IBM/GlobalFoundries 45nm process, it's fair to say that the new SoC (pictured above) is the first mass-market, desktop-class processor to combine a CPU, GPU, memory, and I/O logic onto a single piece of silicon."


Eh thats a bit of a stretch lol

MediaGX had CPU + Graphics
Sony PSOne did as well

Not to mention a slew of cell phone Applications Processors now
at 3.2GHz though, it is probably the fastest

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PostPosted: Tue Aug 24, 2010 12:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I can add to that Geode family, AMD Elan and VIA Mark/Luke Corefusion.

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PostPosted: Tue Aug 24, 2010 1:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

yup, though the Geode is just a rebuilt MediaGX
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