Spider is a step toward AMD's goal of putting high-end graphics capabilities on a single slice of silicon with its processors, a project AMD has dubbed Fusion.
Spider is a step toward AMD's (nyse: AMD - news - people ) goal of putting high-end graphics capabilities on a single slice of silicon with its processors, a project AMD has dubbed Fusion.
At the risk of being too simplistic to make silicon wafers, which is what you use to make computer chips and solar cells, you take a great big ingot of very pure silicon metal and then slice it very thinly.