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AMD has revealed the new elements of its future processors. Earlier this year Intel talked about processors with hundreds of cores at the IDF. But according to AMD it is nothing more than a rat race for the most number of cores on the chip. AMD believes that increasing the number of cores on the chips is not the best way to upscale the performance of the processors. AMD is planning a new type of processor called the ‘Accelerated Processing Units’ or APUs. APU will also be a multiple core chip that will include a mix of processor cores and other dedicated processors. AMD’s Fusion, which will be released in 2009, is the company’s first step in the direction. AMD plans to add not more but specialized cores that can that can handle specific tasks more than mere computing and graphics. Take a look at the mobile and the desktop roadmaps of the company: The above roadmaps make some things very clear to us. The company will launch the quad core chips in the middle of 2007 and derived dual core in the latter part of this year. The map also tells us that the company does not intent to move to DDR3 memory until the second half of 2008. Now if we talk about the mobile market the company is planning to launch a new mobile chip called code named Hawk that will have low power consumption than the current Turion and Sempron chips. In the late 2007 the company will launch a new mobile chip code named Griffin that will support power planes and HT 3.0.