Closer look at AMD's GPU/CPU Fusion

When the AMD-ATI merger was announced, one of the first rumors to emerge and then quickly be confirmed was that a combined CPU/GPU product was in the works. From one perspective, the idea of putting CPU and GPU hardware on the same piece of silicon might seem like a novel idea from nowhere, but the industry has been moving in this direction for some time. In fact, back in 1999 I reported that Sun's MAJC was ostensibly headed in the direction of integrating the CPU and GPU on to the same piece of silicon...