GlobalFoundries offers a little preview at one of the upcoming Fusion processors from AMD, the Orochi based on the Bulldozer architecture as Softpedia reports.

Bobcat’s firstborn will be the 40nm Ontario mobile chip and comes with embedded DirectX 11 graphics. is intended for desktops and servers with Orochi being one of the flagship chips.

No real information was provided on this 8-core product besides that it will be the second 32nm-based product and will be built immediately after the Llano. The Orochi will feature a set of 4 Bulldozer modules, which provide 8 cores and 8 threads, and will probably have an AM3+ package with an integrated DDR3 memory controller.

On the other hand, the individual L2 caches will be of 1MB and will support dual-channel DDR3 and will, of course, have its own built-in graphics with support for DirectX 11.The APU should also feature an integrated northbridge, integrated PCI Express root complex, a HyperTransport interface to the chipset and an integrated SIMD array with 480 stream processors.

The Llano will have to compete with the Sandy Bridge processors from Intel, which also have integrated graphics and will feature better performance than the current Core series [via Softpedia / PCPer].

AMD is giving a sneak peek into the future, well next year 2011 that is. AMDs future processors will be called APUs (Accelerated Processing Units) and during a Press Conference yesterday in Taipei, the company’s Senior VP and GM, Rick Bergman showcased a DirectX 11 demo of the 2011-bound APUs. Don’t confuse that with say Intel’s Clarkdale which has in fact two processing units (CPU and a GPU) both sitting on the processor package.

Fusion is a single, power-efficient chip that combines both the CPU and GPU into a single die – the APU. “Hundreds of millions of us now create, interact with, and share intensely visual digital content,” said Rick Bergman, senior vice president and general manager, AMD Product Group. “This explosion in multimedia requires new applications and new ways to manage and manipulate data. Low resolution video needs to be up-scaled for larger screens, HD video must be shrunk for smart phones, and home movies need to be stabilized and cleaned up for more enjoyable viewing. When AMD formally launches the AMD Fusion family of APUs, scheduled for the first half of in 2011, we expect the PC experience to evolve dramatically.”

In addition to the announcement and the demon of the new APUs, Rick Bergman also introduced AMD’s new Fusion Fund, a program that is intended to promote and support the development of new solutions that will take advantage of the processing power and design of AMD’s future Fusion APUs. Details about the new Fusion Fund are available at the company’s website.

“The computing industry is undergoing a long-envisioned and inevitable transition from text-based computing to a digital world of natural human-to-system interfaces and rich visual experiences that are incredibly vivid and realistic,” said Manju Hegde, corporate vice president, AMD Fusion Experience Program, and Fusion Fund managing partner. “AMD Fusion APUs are designed to expand the art of the possible for software developers, accelerate application performance, and deliver levels of power efficiency conducive to cooler and sleeker PC devices. The Fusion Fund will help expand the Fusion ecosystem focused on realizing the next generation of computing for the mainstream market.”

A video of AMD’s Fusion in action is available below, doesn’t look half bad for sure.

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AMDs Fusion processor will be a merge between a GPU and a CPU, there’s a new ETA. Currently, Fusion 32nm is scheduled to debut sometime during 2011.

According to AMD, the Barzos platform that will be paired with the Fusion processors will be targeted at ultra-thin notebooks. They will supposedly operate on less power than current solutions, which means that the chip and platform might be very suited for tablet PCs. This fact comes even though AMD is “currently not painting a strategy” around such devices. The Fusion APU (accelerated processing unit) will be codenamed Ontario and will integrate the CPU and GPU on a single die, similar to what Intel’s 32nm CPUs do.

All APUs will be made based on the 32nm manufacturing process. They will target not just ultra-thin and ultra-mobile systems, but the line will also feature desktop PC offerings. The company will still monitor the “exciting” tablet market and will watch out for an opportune moment to enter it.

Most speculations around the APU deal with the actual graphics capabilities. Considering the extensive graphical know-how from ATI, there is little doubt that AMD should be capable of making APUs capable of running even the most modern games, even with all the difficulties of combining the two technologies into a single die. However, making such a super powered chip might actually threaten AMD’s graphics card sales. As such, while the Fusion is expected to surpass Intel’s 32nm chips, a high-end graphics performance may be out of the question.