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At the top end, AMD graphic cards can cost up to £380 for the XFX Black Edition 7970, but eBuyer's latest offer is for a complete Fusion system, with 8GB of memory, for 40% less money. KitGuru opens an online account to investigate. It's in the topsy-turvy nature of the …

Today, AMD  updated its awardwinning C- and E-Series Accelerated Processing Units (APUs) for ultrathin and value notebooks, netbooks, all-in-ones and desktop PCs with top of the line features. The updated APUs deliver; Enhanced HD graphics capabilities; Performance boosts with enhanced memory; DisplayPort ++ for connecting to any HDMI or DisplayPort-enabled …

We don't often review many Foxconn related products but today we are looking at their new mini PC which is based around AMD's successful Fusion platform. Foxconn are a massive manufacturing organisation who produce many goods for leading tech companies such as Apple. Their NT-A3500 is based around an ultra …

It's one thing to launch a technology, it's quite another to get people to buy it. While the journalistic reception for Fusion-class processors has been universally positive – are people actually buying them? KitGuru uses quantum techniques to stand outside every store in the world and do a quick chip …

Foxconn, the world leading manufacturer of computer components and systems, today announced incredible performance results for the new NT-A3500 Barebone – with over twice the performance of the NT-330i it replaces, whilst using significantly less power. Utilising the new AMD Fusion APU with built-in Radeon HD 6310 graphics, the NT-A3500 …

Getting ready for its huge Fusion Developer Conference in Bellvue, Washington from 13th to 16th June, AMD is launching Fusion-supporting tools faster than ever. KitGuru has a quick look at an early set of event notes to see what's brewing. In the 21st century, having hardware is probably less than …

AMD released Fusion in January and KitGuru has reviewed many motherboards and systems from partners … all to this point within a desktop environment. Today we are analysing the new Hewlett Packard Pavilion DM1z, our first look at AMD's Fusion technology in the mobile space. Intel have been ruling the …

Sometimes in this industry, unusual events can occur – such as when AMD partner Sapphire created the Edge HD Mini PC with Intel and Nvidia hardware inside. Zotac are well known as one of Nvidia's most capable partners, but the system we are reviewing today is based around the AMD …

AMD's Fusion Platform was released in January and finally we are starting to see some availability throughout Europe in recent weeks. We have already analysed products from Asus, MSI and Sapphire and today we look at the latest fusion board from Asrock, the E350M1. Specifications: AMD Dual-Core Zacate E-350 APU …

No one will really know how much momentum Fusion has, until this time next year, when the 2011 financials come through from AMD and we can analyse them in detail. What we can say for sure is that the more products that offer Fusion, the better chance it has of …

At the end of 2008, AMD's share price was just under $1.82. At the time we sat down to write this article, they were trading at $9.18. You don't need a degree from the London School of Economics to see a 500% rise. There will have been lots of factors, …

At the Distree XXL conference in Monaco, AMD have been chatting with KitGuru and they told us that they have shipped over a million Fusion chips already. While this is a positive number for AMD to be quoting at such an early stage, it all boils down whether AMD will …

Many of you will have already seen our exclusive MSI system coverage of the Fusion platform several weeks ago. For those of you looking for a svelte, attractive mobile platform based around this exciting new technology, then the Sony VAIO YB might just hit the spot. Sony first announced this …

First there was the promise, that Fusion was the future. Then, at CES, AMD revealed the combination of CPU and GPU that it calls an APU. Today, Kitguru has in its lab  the world's first AMD Fusion Platform prototype from MSI, exclusively for our reader's delight. It is a model/concept …

It has been 5 years and a global saturation programme to convince us that the “Future is Fusion”.  Now the product has launched, where is it hiding?  KitGuru dons a safari costume, picks up a set of high-powered binoculars and goes in search of AMD Fusion. In contrast to the …

OK, the chances of the next XBox being called 720 are 50:50 at best but, for now, at least you all know what we're talking about. While the name and final design for the box and packaging might still be up in the air, the internals appear to have been …

We're surrounded by integrated graphics.   From Blackberries to iPhones, from netbooks to iPads. KitGuru spends more hours in a day using integrated graphics than discrete cards. As users, we represent the elite. The top 5% of users – with serious knowledge, skills and access to as much technology as we …

A couple of days ago KitGuru reported from IDF showcasing the new upcoming AMD CPU architecture with integrated graphics. The new  APU chip, codenamed ‘Zacate' looks to be a very exciting product with a low power requirement and a high level of performance. Zacate is based on dual Bobcat CPU …

KitGuru's earlier shot of the full blooded, desktop Fusion processor got a lot of folks salivating and a few of them spitting bile. For your delight and delictation, we flip it over and shoot it next to something hard and spicy. Phwoah. Life is busy already. With the launch of …

For years, AMD's been telling us that the future is Fusion. At Computex 2010 it finally ran a full speed demo live on stage in front of the world's press. On 26th July, AMD briefed the press again, with Fusion marketing guru John Taylor taking the lead. Now the threat …

Floating a company onto the stock exchange is a great way to evolve. Not only does it bring in a huge amount of investment, it also ensures that the original founders finally get paid for all their initial work. China is full of massive companies that are privately owned. One …

Craig Connell spent years driving sales for nVidia before moving across to the red team almost a decade ago. He knows both of the graphics companies intimately and, through the processor giant’s acquisition of ATI, he’s also an expert on AMD’s CPU business.He's just the right person to prod for …

Funny thing about technology journalism. No one talks about a topic and it's not in the public domain. You then do a story and suddenly you’re inundated with new information. That happened over the weekend, during our server move (yes, we know, KitGuru works overtime, Saturdays, Sundays and during the …

AMD's first APU products will be available in the first half of 2011. Codenamed Ontario and Llano they are set to shake up the market. Accelerated Processing Units combine CPU and GPU into a single die processor and are created with 3d video and HD support as the primary focus. …