"AMD clearly faced technical and economic challenges in combining central processing units with graphics units at the current 45-nm process generation," Lineback said. On the flip side, delaying Fusion chips may help AMD reap financial benefits of the stand-alone GPU business, which turns a profit and generates a good chunk of AMD's revenue, Lineback said. If released as originally planned, Fusion chips would have reduced the need for separate graphics cards, cannibalizing the sales of ATI graphics cards. That allows AMD to keep the CPU and GPU business, which will help the company.

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