The APU has shipped more than a million DX11 GPUs and reached 35 million in its fourth quarter earnings report. AMD also disclosed some product shipment figures, including the just-released Brazos Fusion APU fusion processor that has exceeded one million mark, DX11. The GPU graphics core has reached 35 million.
Thomas Seifert, Interim CEO of AMD, told analysts: “Fusion’s industry trend is rapidly rising and expanding. OEMs’ interest in the Brazos platform is also exciting. In the first quarter of the launch, we’ve been to the top of the world. OEMs shipped more than 1 million Brazos platforms, including Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo, MSI, Samsung, Sony, Toshiba."
He later added: "Customers have realized that the Brazos platform is not only applicable to netbook platforms, but is being pushed into tablet computers, networked set-top boxes, thin clients, POS terminals and other fields."
The Brazos platform has only just been released earlier this month, but in fact it began bulk shipments in early November of last year. It has now been more than three months. It is estimated that there are about 10,000 per day.
Regarding the graphics card, Thomas Seifert is also proud to announce: “We have shipped more than 35 million DX11 GPUs to date. Graphics chip revenue was US$424 million this quarter, a 90% increase from the previous quarter, thanks to the second-generation DX11 GPU. Radeon HD 6800/6900 series driven (individual graphics) channels achieved double-digit growth, as well as game console revenue over previous quarters."
Just three months ago, on the first anniversary of the birth of the Radeon HD 5000 series, AMD’s shipments of DX11 GPUs were 25 million units. During this time, NVIDIA DX11 products continued to be launched and responded well, but it did not seem to affect AMD's position. DX11 GPUs have about 100,000 shipments per day.