Editing AMD (section)

==== Fusion becomes the AMD APU ====
{{Main|AMD APU|AMD mobile platform}}
Following AMD's 2006 acquisition of Canadian graphics company [[ATI Technologies]], an initiative codenamed ''Fusion'' was announced to integrate a [[CPU]] and [[GPU]] together on some of AMD's microprocessors, including a built in [[PCI Express]] link to accommodate separate PCI Express peripherals, eliminating the [[Northbridge (computing)|northbridge]] chip from the motherboard. The initiative intended to move some of the processing originally done on the CPU (e.g. [[floating-point unit]] operations) to the GPU, which is better optimized for some calculations. The Fusion was later renamed the [[AMD APU]] (Accelerated Processing Unit).<ref name="APU">{{cite web |last=Stokes |first=Jon |date=February 8, 2010 |title=AMD reveals Fusion CPU+GPU, to challenge Intel in laptops |url=https://arstechnica.com/business/news/2010/02/amd-reveals-fusion-cpugpu-to-challege-intel-in-laptops.ars |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100210011231/http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2010/02/amd-reveals-fusion-cpugpu-to-challege-intel-in-laptops.ars |archive-date=February 10, 2010 |access-date=February 9, 2010 |website=Ars Technica}}</ref>

Llano was AMD's first APU built for laptops. Llano was the second APU released,<ref name="Hruska">{{cite web |last=Hruska |first=Joel |date=July 16, 2010 |title=AMD Flip-Flops: Llano Later, Bobcat Bounding Forward |url=http://hothardware.com/News/AMD-FlipFlops-Llano-Later-Bobcat-Bounding-Forward/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100721024445/http://hothardware.com/News/AMD%2DFlipFlops%2DLlano%2DLater%2DBobcat%2DBounding%2DForward/ |archive-date=July 21, 2010 |access-date=July 17, 2010 |publisher=[[HotHardware]]}}</ref> targeted at the mainstream market.<ref name="APU" /> It incorporated a CPU and GPU on the same die, and northbridge functions, and used "[[Socket FM1]]" with [[DDR3]] memory. The CPU part of the processor was based on the [[Phenom II]] "Deneb" processor. AMD suffered an unexpected decrease in revenue based on production problems for the Llano.<ref>[http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Desktops-and-Notebooks/AMD-Cuts-Q3-Forecast-Due-to-Chip-Manufacturing-Problems-581901/] {{Dead link|date=December 2021|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}}</ref> More AMD APUs for laptops running Windows 7 and Windows 8 OS are being used commonly. These include AMD's price-point APUs, the E1 and E2, and their mainstream competitors with Intel's [[Core i]]-series: The Vision A- series, the A standing for accelerated. These range from the lower-performance A4 chipset to the A6, A8, and A10. These all incorporate next-generation Radeon graphics cards, with the A4 utilizing the base Radeon HD chip and the rest using a Radeon R4 graphics card, with the exception of the highest-model A10 (A10-7300) which uses an R6 graphics card.