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Acer Aspire One 522 up for pre-order at $330

, Jan 12th 2011 Discuss [1]

Amazon is taking pre-orders for Acer's Aspire One 522, the 1080p-capable netbook made official last week. Powered by AMD's new Fusion APU range of processors, paired with discrete Radeon HD graphics, the 10.1-inch netbook is priced at $329.99. Read The Full Story

Acer Aspire 5252 and 4253 notebooks adopt AMD Fusion

Acer has outed a pair of notebooks using AMD's Fusion APU processors. The Acer Aspire 5253 and Aspire 4253 hit the 15.6- and 14-inch sizes respectively, and each use AMD's 1.6GHz E-350 processor paired with Radeon HD 6470 512MB graphics. There's also HDMI connectivity for 1080p HD output, along with a DVD burner and optional Bluetooth 3.0. Read The Full Story

MSI Wind Top AE220, AE2410 and AE2050 Intel and AMD touchscreen all-in-ones debut

MSI has unveiled three new Wind Top all-in-one desktop PCs at CES 2011 today, the Intel Sandy Bridge based Wind Top AE2210 and AE2410, and the AMD Brazos based Wind Top AE2050. All three feature 16:9 aspect multi-touch touchscreens - 22-inches on the AE2210, 24-inches on the AE2410, and 20-inches on the AE2050 - together with USB 3.0 ports for high-speed connectivity. Read The Full Story

Acer Aspire One 522 AMD Fusion 1080p netbook gets official

Acer's Aspire One 522 - which leaked back in December - has been made official, with the netbook packing AMD's latest C-50 1GHz Fusion processor and Radeon HD 6250 256MB graphics. Fronted by a 10.1-inch 1280 x 720 display, the AO522 promises 1080p HD video output from an HDMI port, along with real time image processing with auto color and contrast adjustment. Read The Full Story

Gigabyte unveils its first AMD FusionT Mini-ITX mainboard

Gigabyte has unveiled its very first AMD Fusion mini-ITX mainboard at CES 2011. The small little board is called the GA-E350N-USB3 and is designed to be a SFF HTPC mainboard for media fans looking for performance without taking up lots of space. The board features AMD Fusion technology and supports DirectX 11. Read The Full Story

Toshiba Satellite C655D takes AMD Fusion to 15.6-inches

Toshiba has outed a 15.6-inch notebook running one of AMD's new Fusion APUs. The Toshiba Satellite C655D uses the 1.5GHz single-core AMD E240, paired with up to 4GB of DDR3 memory and a 320GB hard-drive. Read The Full Story

HP 100B all-in-one packs AMD Fusion APU

Lest you forget that AMD's new Fusion APUs are intended for all-in-ones as well, HP has outed its HP 100B compact all-in-one desktop to use the new chips. The 100B packs the E-350 dual-core 1.6GHz processor along with Radeon HD 6310 graphics, paired with up to 8GB of memory and up to 75GB of HDD storage. There's also a DVD burner and WiFi b/g/n, and the whole thing is fronted by a 20-inch 1900 x 1600 display. Read The Full Story

HP Pavilion dm1 packs E-350 AMD Fusion APU

HP has unveiled one of their first AMD Fusion APU based notebooks, the HP Pavilion dm1, an 11.6-inch ultraportable using the E-350 dual-core 1.6GHz processor, Radeon HD 6310M graphics and a 320GB hard-drive. The Pavilion dm1 has a 1366 x 768 display, WiFi b/g/n, Bluetooth and gigabit ethernet, as well as up to 8GB of RAM (3GB standard), and while it may look like a netbook there's still an HDMI output for Full HD video. Read The Full Story

AMD Fusion APUs get official: DirectX 11, 1080p HD & 10hr battery life

AMD has officially launched its Fusion APU series, a hybrid range of CPU/GPU chips incorporating both into a single die. Targeted at ultraportables, notebooks and netbooks, the new AMD E-Series "Zacate" and C-Series "Ontario" APUs each use the Bobcat CPU core, and AMD reckon they're capable of DirectX 11 graphics, UVD3 video acceleration, 1080p HD playback, 2D conversion to 3D and up to 10hrs battery life depending on system. Read The Full Story

Lenovo IdeaPad G Series notebooks get Intel or AMD Brazos Fusion chips

Lenovo's G Series may be the company's value notebooks, but they still haven't escaped the Sandy Bridge upgrade. New for CES 2011 are the Lenovo IdeaPad G770, G570, G470, G575 and G475, spanning 17-, 15- and 14-inch screen sizes, and available with a choice of Intel Core i3, i5 or i7 processors, or chips from AMD's new Brazos Fusion range. They're paired with either AMD Radeon HD 6370M 1GB graphics or Radeon HD 6650 graphics. Read The Full Story

Gigabyte and SOYO AMD Zacate mainboards leak

, Dec 15th 2010 Discuss [0]

Motherboards from two manufacturers using AMD's Zacate Fusion APU have leaked, headed to low-cost desktop PC systems in 2011. Gigabyte's GA-E350V-USB3 mainboard showed up at X-bit labs, while the SOYO brand has seemingly been revived for an unnamed Zacate 'board spotted at Expreview. Both use the 1.6GHz dual-core AMD E350 CPU. Read The Full Story

AMD Llano Fusion APU launch delayed to H2 2011 over poor production rates?

AMD's Llano Fusion APUs may promise to revolutionise HD video and graphics, but it seems the company has to finesse their production first. According to DigiTimes' sources at motherboard manufacturers, lower than expected yield rates for 32nm chips at Globalfoundries has led to a delay in Llano's launch, with AMD concerned that large chunks of its early batches could be defective. As a result, there's talk that the original launch in the first half of 2011 has been pushed back until early in the second half of the year, with mass production not tipped until August or September 2011. Read The Full Story

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