AMD has shipped 5 million Fusion processors

Thursday, June 2, 2011 - 14:30 in Mathematics & Economics

(PhysOrg.com) -- Advanced Micro Devices, which you may know better by its initials AMD, has announced that it has shipped out roughly five million of its Fusion processors since their creation. The processors, which are used mainly in netbooks are beginning to take down Intel's market domination, at least when it comes to the world of netbooks and tablets. You may wonder how different the AMD and Intel processors are? To be honest the AMD only, in most cases, performs only slightly better on processing benchmarks than Intel models. These differences however, have been enough to make some manufacturers switch, since those boosts can be the difference between being sold and sitting on the shelf.

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