New AMD Processors

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New AMD processors

US-based semiconductor company Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has announced what it calls "the third era of technology in the single chip": the AMD Fusion Family of Accelerated Processing Units (APUs), incorporated in a single die design.

The company says the new APUs will bring an affordable price to PCs and notebooks.

AMD's corporate vice president of worldwide product and outbound marketing Leslie Sobon said that the new AMD Fusion APUs - the third-era PC technology that remains cool with a revolutionary single chip - came with multi-core CPU (x86) technology, a powerful DirectX11-capable discrete-level graphics and parallel-processing engine, a dedicated high-definition video acceleration block, and a high-speed bus that sped data across the differing types of processor cores within the design.

She said the new APUs offered personal supercomputing in notebooks and up to 10 hours of battery life. The features of the new range include stuffer-free HD video playback, a breakthrough in computational horsepower to handle demanding applications, DirectX11-capable graphics and all day battery life.

The AMD Fusion Family includes A-, C- and E-series. The A-series, codenamed "Llano", will be mainstream and performance platforms, to power all-in-one desktops with better gaming performance at lower power. It will be ready for shipment in the first half of this year.

The C-series, codenamed "Ontario", is designed for HD notebooks, featuring 11x graphic performance. The E-series, codenamed "Zacate", is designed for mainstream or entry-level notebooks, and will have an affordable price between US$300 and $399 (Bt9,274 and Bt12,335).

AMD has also confirmed that more than 35 AMD Fusion-based systems will be launched in the Asia-Pacific region in the first half of this year.

The chipmaker expects that various hardware manufacturers, such as Acer, Asus, Dell, Fujitsu, HP, Lenovo, Samsung, Sony and Toshiba, will announce products build around AMD Fusion APU-based systems.

Sobon said AMD had achieved high market growth in China, India, Indonesia and Vietnam.

The senior vice president and general manager of AMD Asia Pacific, Ben Williams, said that AMD Fusion APUs would change the industry by enabling more vivid digital experiences for consumers on PCs.

"I think that AMD Fusion will provide our technology partners with the ability to create new and exiting form factors as well as applications designed to cater to consumer needs," Williams said.

-- The Nation 2011-02-03

[astral]

Anything except Intel, after their latest fiasco.

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[MaiChai]

The chip business has finally woken up that we already have plenty of computing power and what we really need is decent computing power than is eco friendly (less power). If you are in a warm country there is nothing more irritating than hot computers; you have to worry about them and try and keep them cool. Also the whole paradyme has changed; we want processing power in lots of different types of devices; not bulky PCs with all their fans, etc.

[Bizz]

The chip business has finally woken up that we already have plenty of computing power and what we really need is decent computing power than is eco friendly (less power). If you are in a warm country there is nothing more irritating than hot computers; you have to worry about them and try and keep them cool. Also the whole paradyme has changed; we want processing power in lots of different types of devices; not bulky PCs with all their fans, etc.

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