Posts Tagged “Fusion”

Accelerating Web Gaming with Internet Explorer 9 and Direct2D

AMD is showing how a GPU is much more capable than a CPU for visually-intense web browsing. Once we are able to get developers to see the possibilities, they can begin writing richer content for webpages designed to enhance your web experience., This can help usher in a new era of immersive social experiences. After all, AMD’s mission with the AMD Fusion APU is to help enhance the visual experience for everyone.

Discrete GPUs: Dead, Mostly Dead, or Alive and Thriving?

The eventual creation of the APU was one of the key reasons for AMD’s acquisition of ATI in 2006. This acquisition brought to AMD industry-leading GPU and chipset technologies, and a software team to support them. As we sit on the precipice of launching the first generation of APUs, people are wondering if discrete GPUs will disappear altogether.

Change is coming this month

It’s funny what a change in seasons can do to put a spring in your step.  For some it’s the warmer days and the new leaves budding on trees, but for me, the change in seasons represents something bigger: it’s “showtime” in the games industry.  Following its big holiday push months ago, March is typically [...]