AMD's Llano presentation at Hot Chips

At Hot Chips, AMD gave a presentation that delved into Llano, the first mainstream Fusion product. There were new details and results for their power management system, that were much more comprehensive than the information at product launch.

Previous disclosures painted a poor picture of the power management, which is far from the truth. Given the older CPU and GPU designs and time-to-market pressure, the results are quite good. Llano's power management focuses on the most important aspects - sharing the power and thermal headroom between the GPU and CPU, and overcomes several significant challenges. The result is modest performance gains for Llano and a solid foundation for future generations that will be much more power aware and optimized, and thus yield greater benefits.