AMD Fusion: will require a new socket

CPUs that also include an integrated graphics unit will require new motherboards.

Az Advanced Micro Devices its first family of processors, called Fusion, with an integrated graphics controller, will hit the market in 2011. The ATI Forum according to this new series will also bring with it a new socket called FM1.

The first Fusion chip a Hudson D3 will be codenamed to be in the middle category, while Hudson D1 products codenamed will be named at the entry level.