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ASUS Eee Top range updated with AMD Fusion chips

, Jun 23rd 2011 Discuss [0]

ASUS has outed its latest all-in-one PCs, the 15.6-inch Eee Top ET1611PUT based on Intel's Atom chips and the 20-inch Eee Top ET2011AUKB and ET2011AUTB based on AMD's Brazos APUs. What we're most pleased to see, however, is that the ET2011AUKB comes with a matte-finish display (the ET2011AUTB has a glossy display, albeit one that also responds to multitouch gestures). Read The Full Story

Freescale i.MX6 quad-core reference design caught on video at FTF 2011

Back in January around CES time, we uncovered some details on the Freescale i.MX6 platform that was then said to support up to four ARM Cortex A9 processing cores. The platform was aimed at tablets and smartphones when we first saw it. Freescale said at the time that the platform was up to five times faster than the current generation chips inside devices. The platform promised some nice features that had us intrigued like 1080p60 decode, 1080p30 encode and support for 3D playback as well. 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

AMD Trinity APU confirmed for 2012; Z-Series for tablets imminent

AMD has officially unveiled its next-gen Fusion chip, Trinity, which will replace the current APU, Llano, in 2012. Presented at Computex 2011 earlier today, Trinity uses the Bulldozer APU and will drop next year; until then, of course, there's Llano's official launch as the VISION A-Series of chips next month, broken down into three tiers: A4, A6 and A8. Read The Full Story

AMD Llano APU prices leak

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

Adapteva supercomputer for Mobile phones could power future game consoles

The processors and APUs inside our smartphones and other mobile devices are getting faster with each generation. The computing power in these small devices is far beyond what you could have in many computers when I was a kid. A company called Adapteva has pitched a new chip for smartphones and other devices that has many more cores inside than the two that processors in some smartphones in use today. Read The Full Story

APU Heaters cause of Shuttle launch delay …

NASA engineers have identified a failure in the power switching box of a primary auxiliary power unit as the culprit of last Friday's scrubbed final launch of the Shuttle Endeavor. The "aft load control assembly," is a box of switches that manages the heating to fuel lines and prevents them from freezing in the cold of space. With it's required replacement and testing, NASA will be unable to resume the launch countdown on Tuesday as the space agency had hoped. It is now expected that the final flight of the Shuttle Endeavor will not occur until at least May 8th. Read The Full Story

SlashGear 101: What is AMD Fusion?

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

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

ASUS Eee PC 1015B and 1215B AMD Fusion netbooks official

, Mar 11th 2011 Discuss [2]

ASUS has officially confirmed its two new AMD Fusion APU-based netbooks, the 10.1-inch Eee PC 1015B and the 12.1-inch Eee PC 1215B. The 1015B can be spec'd with either AMD's 1.2GHz single-core C30 or 1GHz dual-core C50, along with Radeon HD 6250 graphics, while the 1215B throws the 1.6GHz dual-core E350 into the mixture with a choice of Radeon HD 6310 graphics. Read The Full Story

Over One Million AMD Fusion APUs Shipped

, Jan 24th 2011 Discuss [0]

AMD has announced that the company has sold more than one million Fusion APUs for entry-level notebooks and netbooks. Not only is their Fusion line doing strong, the company is now boasting over 35 million units sold of their Direct X 11-class processing units. Read The Full Story

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