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AMD demos Llano Fusion chip
CHIP DESIGNER AMD has demonstrated its Llano Accelerated Processing Unit (APU) at a technical forum in Taipei.
Llano forms part of the firm's Fusion product line and is intended for laptops and 'thin' desktop machines. The Llano APU features a graphics core built into the CPU chip to reduce not only the number of components but also heat and manufacturing cost.
The demonstration was used to show that the Llano chip has enough power to compete with existing low-end CPUs, with the firm running three simultaneous compute and graphic intensive workloads on the chip.
Running Microsoft Windows 7, the test comprised calculating the value of Pi to 32 million decimal places while decoding video from a Blu-ray disc. While all that was going on the chip also ran Microsoft's Nbody Directcompute benchmark, which came up with a figure of 30Gflops of computational power.
AMD claims that the demonstration was a preview of "Llano's raw compute power enabling new levels of experience computing that AMD aims to bring to mainstream PC users in 2011." The firm also claims the chip will help deliver "sleek form factors" and long battery life.
Llano is expected to appear in dual, triple and quad core configurations with thermal design power (TDP) ratings somewhere between 20W to 60W depending on the number of cores. The APUs will be fabbed with Globalfounderies' 32nm process. Llano APUs are expected to displace the market segment currently occupied by AMD's Athlon II CPU chips.
For AMD, Llano will be the first real Fusion product after years of talk and various cancellations. The topic of APUs was mooted merely days after AMD announced it had bought ATI in 2006, however it has taken nearly five years for a product to tip up.
We expect that AMD will put its Fusion APUs on display at CES in January 2011. µ
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First, Ever Wondered Exactly Defination of: LLANO. Well, Greek Term for Open Grassland with Sparse Tree Growth. Common is Eastern Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Even South America. Texas Has llano City, So maybe when Austin Was AMD Engineering Site, now HUD Housing Projest & WareHouse, LLANO Became Project name.
Next LLANO has 2.14 Billion Transistors, Quitea Few, yet compared to mobile with discrete, More than Ever. In LLANO Demonstration, Wasn't Actually Overly Impressed, although did do 3 programs, see bordering on perhaps real collaspe, maybe jiggled table would of Froze Very Small lapTop.
If Works In Market, Larrafreeze Might finally found true form in Sandy Bridge Vs LLANO Contest. Maybe Both Be HOT. Sandy Bridge Plans to Go To Higher Stakes in Mid Summer, After Testing Waters in Few Months. LLANO Seems About Ready To Go Now.
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Even though AMD is better than Intel in terms of technology, it does not get support from technical journals and media as they are paid heavily to report only about Intel. AMD's processor are far superior than Intel's and should have 50% market share. Why is it not so?
Ok, so when are those chips going to arrive? and what about frequency? can those be overclocked?
I hope I can CF an on-board 4200 (785G chipset) with it, that would make for a killer HTPC with great light-duty power for less demanding games like Fallout 3 and older.