Wednesday, April 6, 2011

APU AMD Llano arriving on the shelves

AMD has announced that the new APU Llano, characterized by the integration of a CPU and GPU compatible DirecX 11 in the same day, the work done under the name of the Fusion project, are sold to OEMs, which means that soon we should see these processors on the shelves. The first units should be named as "A" series and probably will be five quad-core processor, you can see in the table below: In addition, AMD announced that it has revised its agreement with GLOBALFOUNDRIES to make sure that the chips produced are perfect for avoid the mistake made in the past with the first versions of the Phenom processors, which were plagued by a bug that penalized performance slightly and in rare cases caused the CPU block.


The agreement between the two companies, committed to providing GLOBALFOUNDRIES wafers at 45 nm and 32 nm per quarter during 2011, of which AMD will pay fixed prices for 45-nm wafers delivered in 2011, while for 32 nm the price will be based on the goodness of the day.

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