AMD Announces New Line Of Chips At CES

At the CES conference this year Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NYSE:AMD) announced the Fusion line of chips this week at CES. The company started working on Fusion the chips in 2006 after they acquired ATI Technologies. These new chips combine a microprocessor and graphics circuitry on the silicon. “As far back as 2005, we saw that the integration of the CPU (central processing unit) and the GPU (graphics processing unit) was inevitable,” stated AMD General Manager of the products group Rick Bergman.
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AMD Demonstrates DirectX 11 GPU At Computex

Microsoft DirectX is a collection of APIs for handling multimedia and video games.  The current version available is DirectX 10 and it comes bundled with Windows Vista.  There isn’t a way to run DirectX 10 applications on Windows XP and the next version of DirectX will be running on Windows 7.  DirectX 11 recently was demonstrated at the Computex conference in Taiwan by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD).  Below is the full press release (via Engadget):

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