AMD today announced the next generation processors for consumer computing – the new AMD Fusion A-Series Accelerated Processing Units (APUs). AMD Claims that A-Series APUs will offer brilliant HD graphics and supercomputer like performance with over 10.5 hours of battery life in laptops. The AMD A-Series APUs combine up to four x86 CPU cores with up to 400 Radeon graphics cores and dedicated HD video processing on single chip.
“The AMD A-Series APU represents an inflection point for AMD and is perhaps the industry’s biggest architectural change since the invention of the microprocessor,” said Rick Bergman, senior vice president and general manager, AMD Products Group. “It heralds the arrival of brilliant all-new computing experiences, and enables unprecedented graphics and video performance in notebooks and PCs. Beginning today we are bringing discrete-class graphics to the mainstream.”
The AMD A-Series APUs (previously codenamed “Llano”) are currently shipping and scheduled to appear in more than 150 notebooks and desktops from leading OEMs in second quarter of 2011. Below we have added a video in which AMD executive talks about the new A-Series APUs, posted by Engadget.