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AMD Trinity 2012 Chip Demoed On Notebook

, Jun 14th 2011 Discuss [0]

AMD has officially launched the Fusion A-Series APUs---a hybrid of CPU and GPU technology---previously called Llano. It will be available in this year's desktops and notebooks. Its successor, the AMD Trinity, isn't due until 2012, but during a presentation this morning at the AMD Developer Fusion Summit 2011, the new silicon was actually demoed on a notebook, as shown in the tweeted image below. Read The Full Story

AMD Fusion A-Series APUs: Llano graduates with 10.5hr battery life, HD graphics

, Jun 14th 2011 Discuss [1]

AMD has officially launched the Fusion A-Series APUs, as previewed at Computex earlier this month. The new Accelerated Processing Units - which are a hybrid of CPU and GPU technology - were previously known as Llano and can already be found in various desktops and notebooks, bringing along their DirectX 11 and HD video support. Read The Full Story

Acer plans Win 7 AMD Z-Series slates after Ice Cream Sandwich wait

, Jun 9th 2011 Discuss [0]

Acer and a bunch of the other companies are getting ready to toss tablets out onto the market in force. You can bet that a bunch of those tablets will be packing Android as the OS but there will be a good number of Windows 7 tablets as well. I suspect that the Windows 7 tablets will be more appealing to the business user than the average consumer, but time will tell. Acer has used AMD processors in Windows 7 tablets before with the W500. Read The Full Story

AMD Llano APU prices leak

, May 24th 2011 Discuss [5]

If the thought of the AMD Llano family of Fusion APUs has you all excited for some CPU and integrated GPU love, prices on some of that hardware have now leaked. According to some research, DigiTimes did on the coming Llano parts and some Bulldozer parts the prices look pretty good. The chart DigiTimes cooked up even puts the competing Intel product into the mix. Read The Full Story

AMD Fusion-Based Quad-Core A8-3530MX for notebooks on the Way

, May 19th 2011 Discuss [1]

Thats the word on the streets over on Turkish site DONANIMHABER, they who claim to have laid their hands on a bucket of info that puts an AMD Fusion-based Quad-Core A8 3530MX for notebooks on what they've got pegged as a code-named "Sabine" chip. This whole system is set to be out "soon," the fastest of the set being a lovely 1.9GHz A8-3530MX with 4MB of Level 2 cache. Sound excellent to you? Beware of their warnings of not-so-quick, fella. Read The Full Story

Lenovo IdeaPad S205 with AMD E350 Fusion APU on sale now

, Apr 29th 2011 Discuss [4]

Lenovo's IdeaPad S205 has begun shipping, offering an 11.6-inch ultraportable with AMD's dual-core 1.6GHz E350 Fusion CPU and Radeon HD 6310 graphics. Announced all the way back in January, the S205 is priced from $499 with 3GB of DDR3 memory, a 320GB 5,400rpm hard-drive and 6-cell battery. Read The Full Story

SlashGear 101: What is AMD Fusion?

, Apr 7th 2011 Discuss [5]

AMD’s news this week that it has begun mass production of the next phase of its AMD Fusion range of processors will mark the company’s new assault on Intel: in the lucrative mainstream notebook and desktop segment. Based around AMD’s new APU chips, the company claims Fusion is an entirely new architecture with its own unique advantages over what Intel is pushing. Join SlashGear 101 after the cut to find out what that means, why it’s important, and whether you should be putting Fusion-powered systems on your shopping list.

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AMD “Llano” Fusion APU ships ahead of schedule

, Apr 5th 2011 Discuss [0]

AMD has announced that its "Llano" APU is now shipping, with the 32nm quad-core Fusion processor on its way to OEMs in time for commercial product launches in Q2 2011. It's a surprising turnaround for the company, about it which it was previously suggested that the first Llano APUs wouldn't ship until Q3, though of course depends on the OEMs themselves pulling their fingers out and slotting the A-Series Fusion into their nettops, netbooks and ultraportable notebooks. Read The Full Story

AMD desktop Fusion APU processors due Q3 to take on Intel Sandy Bridge

, Mar 18th 2011 Discuss [0]

AMD is reportedly readying the first desktop versions of its APU-based processors for a release in Q3 2011, following the successful launch of the Fusion APU notebook range back in January. According to DigiTimes' sources, the first batch of desktop Fusion fun will include six A-series 32nm Llano APUs debuting at Computex in June, while a further five chips will follow on in Q4. Read The Full Story

AMD Wireless TV takes on Intel WiDi [Video]

, Feb 17th 2011 Discuss [2]

AMD is joining with software partner Vivu to go head to head against Intel's WiDi streaming video. The new solution, dubbed is AMD Wireless TV and will stream wirelessly from virtually any AMD Fusion powered PC to an HDTV with no additional hardware required. First shown as a demo at CES, AMD Wireless TV can stream 720p HD video and users can adjust video quality for any situation, be it a movie at home, or wanting to wirelessly project a presentation at a meeting. Read The Full Story

AMD Radeon HD 6990 gets premature preview

, Jan 24th 2011 Discuss [3]

An unannounced dual-core AMD graphics card believed to be the Radeon HD 6990 has been casually flaunted at a Fusion APU launch event. According to itPOC, AMD GPU general manager Matt Skynner whipped out the card while discussing the company's APU technology; the HD 6990 is believed to pair two sets of 1,920 stream processors for a total of 3,840. Read The Full Story

AMD Embedded G-Series puts Fusion APU in set-top boxes, SFF PCs, more

, Jan 19th 2011 Discuss [1]

AMD's Fusion-based APU may have taken a while to reach the market, but it seems the company is wasting no time taking on Intel's Atom range for low-power applications. The latest is the AMD Embedded G-Series, an x86 Bobcat core with an integrated GPU and DirectX 11 support, designed to slot into set-top boxes, SFF PCs and more. Video demo after the cut Read The Full Story
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