AMD has announced that Apple is planning to embrace its new Fusion platform for its future desktop and notebook systems.
During an AMD Financial Analyst Day presentation, Senior VP and Chief Sales Officer Emilio Ghilardi spilled the beans on this quite interesting development. While showing off a series of Fusion slides, Ghilardi inadvertently showed slide number 7, which clearly showed Apple as one of the many Fusion partners. Ghilardi did not comment the slides, saying merely: "I'll flash through them very quickly."
He mentioned AMD's cooperation with Fusion partners, saying that a bunch of new Fusion products never seen before would be introduced by the end of the year. Yesterday AMD announced that Brazos shipments have already started, so it's quite possible that Apple engineers are already sipping their lattes and toying about with Ontario and Zacate APUs somewhere in Cupertino.
This could prove to be a major coup for AMD, as getting Apple on board the Fusion bandwagon will undoubtedly drive other vendors to consider the new platform as well. Apple on the other hand will also stand to benefit from Fusion's graphics prowess. If there is one thing Apple users appreciate, it's eye candy. Speaking of which, Apple and Fusion logos look rather nice together.
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