It featured K10 CPU cores and a Radeon HD 6000 series GPU on the same die on the FM1 socket.

The first generation desktop and laptop APU, codenamed Llano, was announced on 4 January 2011 at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas and released shortly thereafter. Reasons contributing to the delay of the project include the technical difficulties of combining a CPU and GPU on the same die at a 45 nm process, and conflicting views on what the role of the CPU and GPU should be within the project. The project reportedly required three internal iterations of the Fusion concept to create a product deemed worthy of release. This effort was moved forward by AMD's acquisition of graphics chipset manufacturer ATI in 2006. The AMD Fusion project started in 2006 with the aim of developing a system on a chip that combined a CPU with a GPU on a single die.

Since the launch of the Zen microarchitecture, Ryzen and Athlon APUs have released to the global market as Raven Ridge on the DDR4 platform, after Bristol Ridge a year prior.ĪMD has also supplied semi-custom APUs for consoles starting with the release of Sony PlayStation 4 and Microsoft Xbox One eighth generation video game consoles. The third generation Kaveri for high performance devices were launched in January 2014, while Kabini and Temash for low-power devices were announced in the summer of 2013. The second generation Trinity for high-performance and Brazos-2 for low-power devices were announced in June 2012.

AMD Accelerated Processing Unit ( APU), formerly known as Fusion, is a series of 64-bit microprocessors from Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), combining a general-purpose AMD64 central processing unit ( CPU) and 3D integrated graphics processing unit (IGPU) on a single die.ĪMD announced the first generation APUs, Llano for high-performance and Brazos for low-power devices, in January 2011.

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