At AMD’s 2012 Financial Analyst Day, as part of their presentation on their future strategy AMD’s CTO Mark Papermaster announced that AMD would be looking into integrating 3rd party IP into future AMD APUs. At the time there was a strong assumption that this would be mobile focused – perhaps in the form of a cellular modem or an ARM core – and it turns out the assumptions were both right and wrong. Today AMD is announcing that they are in fact going to start integrating ARM cores into future APUs starting in 2013, but not in the way you’re probably thinking. Starting with part of their 2013 APU lineup, AMD will be adding an ARM Cortex-A5 processor to the APU for the purpose of...
AMD Reveals Brazos 2.0 APUs and FCH
AMD today announced their Brazos 2.0 APUs, also known as their 2012 AMD E-series APU. Brazos has actually been a major success for AMD, particularly in emerging markets, as...
30 by Jarred Walton on 6/5/2012
Zotac ZBOX Nano XS AD11 Plus: Redefining the Small Form Factor PC
Small Form Factor (SFF) PCs are becoming quite popular as processors become more and more power efficient. Over the last few years, we have had a slew of budget...
44 by Ganesh T S on 4/11/2012
Details on Trinity - AMD's Next Gen APU
DonahimHaber has leaked a slide concerning AMD's next generation APU, called Trinity. The slide does not reveal any detailed specifications, it's merely an overview of Trinity. Lets begin with...
44 by Kristian Vättö on 10/25/2011
ASUS E35M1-M Pro Review - Anyone For Fusion?
The low powered AMD Fusion market is still an active one, and although the ASUS E35M1-M Pro has been available for a while, we have been asked to have...
66 by Brendan van Varik on 10/25/2011
HP Leaks Three Unreleased AMD A-series APUs
HP has accidentally leaked three AMD A-series APUs while updating the service guide for HP Pavilion g7. The update simply includes SKUs and specs for three yet to be...
5 by Kristian Vättö on 9/7/2011
AMD's A8-3850 up to 26% Faster than A6-3650
When AMD introduced its Llano desktop parts it mentioned two different GPU configurations: an on-die Radeon HD 6550D with 400 cores running at 600MHz and a Radeon HD 6530D...
12 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/23/2011
AMD Updates Brazos with E-450, E-300 and C-60 APUs
When AMD first introduced its Brazos platform at the end of last year it promised annual updates to the platform. Today we get the first official update to the...
22 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/22/2011
AMD Introduces Triple-Core A6-3500 APU
AMD just announced availability of its first triple-core Llano APU: the A6-3500. The 3500 features three cores running at 2.1GHz. AMD's Turbo Core is supported so you can see...
26 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/17/2011
Fusion E-350 Review: ASUS E35M1-I Deluxe, ECS HDC-I and Zotac FUSION350-A-E
Despite what you could buy many years ago for more than a thousand dollars, you can now get the same performance in a motherboard/CPU combo for under $200. ...
67 by Ian Cutress on 7/14/2011
ASRock A75 Extreme6 Review and Desktop Llano Overclocking
Our initial tests with the ASRock A75 Extreme6 were based on a pre-release model, and shown in our preview. At that point, the board design was not finalized...
44 by Ian Cutress on 6/30/2011
AMD and GlobalFoundries, CES 2011
The entities formerly known as AMD—namely, AMD and GlobalFoundries—are both here in Vegas for CES, and we had an opportunity to stop by and discuss their current and future...
73 by Jarred Walton on 1/7/2011
The Brazos Performance Preview: AMD E-350 Benchmarked
Last week I mentioned that I had recently spent some time with AMD down in Austin, TX, benchmarking its upcoming Brazos platform. The Brazos platform is composed of an...
222 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/16/2010
Previewing AMD's Brazos, Part 1: More Details on Zacate/Ontario and Fusion
I hate to keep things from you all, but last week I was diligently working in a room at AMD’s new campus in Austin, Texas. You see, AMD wanted...
115 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/9/2010