AMD Fusion coming to netbooks.

(From vnunet)

AMD has confirmed plans to ship its first Fusion processor before the end of 2010, but this will now be the Ontario low-end chip for ultra-thin portables and desktops, rather than the Llano high-performance chip, owing to issues with the 32nm process on which the latter is being built.

Fusion, which was first demonstrated publicly at the Computex show in June, combines general-purpose x86 processor cores with highly parallel graphics processor (GPU) technology to produce what AMD calls an accelerated processing unit (APU).

AMD had expected that its first APU would be Llano, a chip with four x86 cores plus a GPU, but this is now behind …