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This was triggered by a story I read in which Microsoft demonstrated a game on Win 7 phone/Zune, Xbox 360 and Windows that shared 90% of it's source code.
It occured to me AMD's upcoming Fusion platforms could provide a rather striking dovetail synergy with Microsoft's strategy.
I would give long odds AMD and Microsoft are in extremely close collaboration in developing Bulldozer and Northern Islands and the Fusion platforms that will be developed from them. It's a natural fit. Fusion can provide a common, highly scalable, highly energy efficient hardware platform able to supply a set of integrated, and very advanced, cpu/gpu solutions for all of Microsoft's hardware needs. A set of solutions neither Nvidia nor Intel will be able to supply. Microsoft could supply a set of platforms tuned to Fusion, which AMD has indicated will be it's focus in the future.
I can see, in three to four years, Windows 8, Windows 8 Phone, Xbox 720 and Fusion coalescing in a unique synergy that will be very difficult to compete with.
And game developers/publishers will absolutely love.
It occured to me AMD's upcoming Fusion platforms could provide a rather striking dovetail synergy with Microsoft's strategy.
I would give long odds AMD and Microsoft are in extremely close collaboration in developing Bulldozer and Northern Islands and the Fusion platforms that will be developed from them. It's a natural fit. Fusion can provide a common, highly scalable, highly energy efficient hardware platform able to supply a set of integrated, and very advanced, cpu/gpu solutions for all of Microsoft's hardware needs. A set of solutions neither Nvidia nor Intel will be able to supply. Microsoft could supply a set of platforms tuned to Fusion, which AMD has indicated will be it's focus in the future.
I can see, in three to four years, Windows 8, Windows 8 Phone, Xbox 720 and Fusion coalescing in a unique synergy that will be very difficult to compete with.
And game developers/publishers will absolutely love.
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