Codenamed Llano for laptops and Bulldozer for desktops. Ill add more info later.

http://www.tested.com/news/amd-llano-due-in-june-trinity-apu-follows-in-2012/2406/
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ll sorts of exciting tech goodies have been pouring out of Taiwan’s Computex event this week, and even AMD popped up at the show to make a few unexpected reveals about its future Accelerated Processor Units. In early April the company announced Llano, currently the most powerful of its APU offerings, was in production. And now we have an honest-to-goodness time frame for Llano’s actual release: June 2011. That's this month!


AMD had two new APUs to announce at the event, as well: Z series processors aimed at the tablet market and Trinity chips that will eventually replace Llano thanks to new Bulldozer CPU cores. But unlike Intel’s 2012 chips with 3D transistors, AMD’s Z series doesn’t seem to have the power efficiency needed to compete in the tablet space.

The Z series APUs are based off AMD’s Bobcat processor cores just like its netbook/notebook Brazos APUs. Z series APUs have a thermal design power of 6 watts, while the ARM chips currently powering tablets boast TDPs of under a watt. That means tablets running on the Z series APUs would have to be built to dissipate far more heat than ARM tablets. Unless the Z series starts powering chunky Windows slates, we don’t know what AMD can do with it other than offer it as an alternative to Brazos for netbooks. AMD's Krishna APUs releasing in 2012 will supposedly bring that TDP down to 1 watt--that might give them a chance in mobile.

Llano and Trinity are a bit more interesting than the Z series. AMD has dubbed the 32nm Llano its A series APUs with A4, A6, and A8 configurations. Obviously there will be some power differences between the tiers, but here’s basically what you can expect: AMD’s DX11 GPU on-board Llano will crush Intel’s HD 3000 graphics and come up noticeably short on CPU power thanks to an outdated architecture. For budget desktop gaming builds and HTPCs, Llano should do fine.

Trinity will follow Llano in 2012, changing out the old CPU cores for AMD’s Bulldozer. That will give AMD some real CPU power, but we’ll have to wait will Ivy Bridge is out to see how the 2012 offerings from AMD and Intel really compare.

Thanks for the article.

I've been a bit too enveloped in the android tablet and phone dev realm as of late, so my PC building enthusiasm has waned as I don't have too hefty of requirements for running the Android SDK or any other development environment.

I think I'll go AMD on my next PC build and laptop choice. They're both due for upgrades.

Probably safe to say though, that picking either will be fattening some Jew's pockets. It'd be nice if there was a choice where no money went to some using, scheming kike in a suit nowadays, but that's next to impossible.

I'm sure the PC hardware industry isn't too thrilled about the fact that the PC software industry as a whole shifted its ideology from that of the 'enthusiast' a decade ago, to that of democratic mob ideals today, whereas people used to upgrade every 6 months to play the new games on higher detail, now people only upgrade every 4-6 years because the 'best games' 'highest-quality' settings are feasible on shitboxes at 30FPS.

Hell, most PC games nowadays seem to be ports from the original development effort for xbox 360 (which is pissing off PS3 owners no doubt, just look at the last COD Black Ops game, which this is the case).

Backwards as hell, for the mob, for the money, not for the prestige and quality. Even the new Crysis is supposedly dumbed-down to piss. Chinese as fuck.

COMICAL THOUGHT! The kikes own attitudes bite them in the ass, as my friends from many years ago I used to play PC games with, still contact me, and are now even voicing their disdain with 'The Jew Bobby Kotick' at Activision nickle and diming the piss out of them with his new Call of Duty coming out again already, which will undoubtedly be a clone, but a clone more optimized to get more money out of the masses.

This is good news indeed. AMD's chipsets as of late were pretty disappointing as none could really surpass the performance of intel's i7. Build my PC like a year ago and was inclined to get the i7. If their new chipset performs well, I'll definitely build a new PC with it. Should be able complement my graphic card of choice, ATi Radeon.