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At the same time, Catalyst Control Center is about to become much more important. AMD purchased ATI because they foresaw the importance of having a graphics division to design GPUs for future CPU products with on-die GPUs – the newly christened APU. Work on integrating a GPU and a CPU started early so the importance of the hardware has always been self-evident, but software has been another matter. With AMD’s first APUs launching next year, the software side of the equation is finally coming together and it’s the Catalyst Control Center at the middle of it all (and the fact that we first saw the new CCC running on Zacate says a lot right there).

Going forward, the Catalyst Control Center will be AMD’s primary CPU/GPU/APU configuration utility. Today we’re just seeing the next evolution of the Catalyst Control Center as a GPU configuration utility, but next year AMD will start bringing in features for their APUs and CPUs. So in many ways this is just the first half of the story as we still don’t know just how the Catalyst Control Center will integrate CPU/APU controls, or for that matter what will become controllable.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4058/a...nter-interface

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