In 2006, when AMD bought ATI, the CPU maker came up with a plan to fuse CPUs with GPUs together in one powerful central processing unit. This project was dubbed Fusion for obvious reasons, but AMD didn’t care to disclose much info on it in the last 2 years.

Nobody knows if Fusion will actually be a Multi-chip module or if it will use AMD’s DCM architecture, there’s enough room for speculation in this case. However, AMD Taiwan leaked some interesting pieces of info on denominations and performance-related aspects.

It so appears that the first fused processing unit was codenamed Swift, which is is part of a Shrike platform. Swift promises “richer graphics and a better media experience with improved overall performance and longer battery life.” Sounds like this is going to be aimed at portable devices as well.The Taiwanese division also mentioned that AMD continues to pursue maximum performance per watt as “We want to achieve the highest performance with the lowest power consumption.”

If all goes according to plan, Swift and Shrike should be ready for volume sales in 2H 2009, but the guys over at Fudzilla say that Swift won’t actually be available up until 2010. More likely Q2 2010 rather than the 2H 2009 timeframe.