AMD Fusion set to blur the lines in 2015

AMD’s Fusion product line is aiming to combine the CPU and GPU in modern computers into a single package called an APU. This technology is a result of the merger between AMD and ATI in 2006. The first generation won’t hit vendors until 2011 but news is already being released about AMD’s future plans. 2011’s Fusion product will feature technology based on the Phenom II and ATI Radeon designs. 2015’s product will be a fully integrated product with no discernable difference between the CPU and GPU tasks.

Benefits of a single APU design are cheaper production costs, lower power consumption, and speed. With an APU design, parallel-processed applications like antivirus will be able to use the GPU processing power of Fusion to do tasks faster than a CPU would be able.