Michael Knutson
06-14-2011, 07:00 AM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/13/amds-fusion-a-series-for-mainstream-laptops-official-10-5-hour/' target='_blank'>http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/13/...cial-10-5-hour/</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>"AMD's Llano platform 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 (sic) accerlated processing units already on the market, these 32-nanometer APUs were designed with desktops and mainstream 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."</em></p><p><img src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/600/lpt/auto/1308030966.usr17748.jpg" style="border: 1px solid #d2d2bb;" /></p><p>AMD appears to be finally ready to continue the platform wars with Intel with Llano, or Fusion-A. In fact, they are making some direct comparisons with Intel's processors, and, according to their numbers, are better, faster, and more power efficient across the board. Claims of 10-hours runtimes for batteries seem very optimistic, and, let's hope that they're close - but what is "resting battery life?" AMD uses the term "supercomputer" and "personal supercomputing" in their press release, so they're setting the bar pretty high! Fusion-A will be ultimately found in more than 150 laptops and desktops starting the second quarter of 2011. Gotta love choices!</p>