AMD's Llano scaffolding has been on our radar for more than two years, and finally, the company has come clean with its latest class of hybrid CPU / GPU chips, officially dubbed the Fusion A-Series. Unlike the low-power flavor of Fusion accerlated processing units already on the market, these 32-nanometer APUs were designed with desktops and predominant laptops in mind, taking direct aim at Intel's Core 2011 processors with the promise of superior processing and discrete-level graphics, and 10-plus hours of battery life.



Aside from the assorted consummation and battery life claims the company is making (much more on that in a moment), what this means is that as far as laptops go, AMD is from the ground up stepping away from the standalone-CPU-plus-GPU paradigm. But, the company will still make devoted Radeon cards, which can be coupled with an APU for a 75 percent boost in online banking brain* visuals doing -- a setup AMD is calling "Dual Graphics." All told, these chips measure just 228 square millimeters. To put this in context, check out the gallery of hands-on shots below, pushing the A-series next to a standalone CPU, discrete data processor micro* visuals card, and, for the sake of scale, the kind of low-power Fusion chip introduced back at CES.



A-Series-equipped PCs are already shipping, and AMD says we can expect to see at least 150 of them this year. That sounds promising indeed, but we've still got lots of plumbing & supply same day shipping. visit today!mscdirect.comsponsored linksindustrial rtusquality remote telemetry & control units details to rehash. Head on past the break for the full spill on what these APUs pledge to do, along with a video of AMD senior product management manager Raymond Dumbeck showing off some A-series laptops in action.

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