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To: Elmer Phud who wrote (256920)	11/5/2008 2:18:25 PM
From: neolib	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 275872

One interesting data point, no matter how you dice it, is that Intel's FIRST quad-core piece of silicon, and AMD's 45nm quad-core based on a new core design are coming out the door at nearly the same time. Same process node, same level of integration in a single piece of silicon, and both introducing new core designs. All at approximately the same point in time. IMO, AMD needs to go balls to the walls with their FUSION designs. I'm not current enough on chip design to know what can and cannot be achieved by throwing more bodies at this, but AMD needs to throw as many bodies as possible. When you have working cores for both parts of the problem (CPU and GPU) why does it take so long to tape out a merged design? AFAIK, plenty of ASIC designs using standard cores mixed with custom logic go from conception to tape out in 4 months or so. Why does FUSION have to take multiple years?