Posted March 12, 2013, 1:30 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in HardwareWith Video
AMD has formally announced its next generation of A-series processors, codenamed Richland, ahead of their planned availability in laptops starting next month. As we’ve mentioned before, this new APU uses the same base silicon as Trinity, including a Piledriver-based CPU…
Posted January 24, 2013, 3:00 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Hardware
AMD is set to replace the current generation A-series "Trinity" APUs with updated parts that are said to offer a performance boost of 20% to 40% over their predecessors. The company has said these new APUs, codenamed Richland, are already…
Despite starting up as a joint venture in 2009, GlobalFoundries and AMD haven't had the best of relationships over the years, with the latter blaming 32nm manufacturing issues for lower-than-expected revenue in 2011. As problems persisted towards the end of…
Posted September 27, 2012, 9:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Hardware
AMD has unveiled the launch lineup for their second generation A-Series APUs for desktops based on Trinity silicon. The chip designer launched mobile processors of the same variety earlier this year to take advantage of seasonal back-to-school sales while desktop…
Posted July 16, 2012, 1:00 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Hardware
AMD has reportedly postponed the launch of its Trinity processors for desktops from August to October in order to make some adjustments to the chips’ designs, according to sources from motherboard makers talking to DigiTimes. The report is in line…
AMD has confirmed that its next-generation accelerated processing units (APUs) under the A-Series "Trinity" and E/C-Series "Brazos 2.0" lines, have begun shipping to device manufacturers and should start showing up in consumer laptops and desktops this quarter. The chips represent…
Posted December 8, 2011, 1:30 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Hardware
AMD has quietly added seven new products to its A-Series of APUs for notebooks. These are all 32nm parts and likely represent the last refresh of Llano on laptops before Trinity arrives in the first half of 2012 -- or…
Posted September 7, 2011, 6:00 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Hardware
AMD today announced its first dual-core Llano APUs, the A4-330 and A4-3400, extending the lineup beyond the five models currently available and bringing the entry-level desktop APU price down to just $70. Both chips integrate a Radeon HD 6410D GPU…
Posted July 13, 2011, 8:00 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Hardware
AMD is reportedly getting ready to add a triple-core variant to its A-Series processor lineup. The chip will be sold under the A6-3500 moniker and it is essentially the same as AMD's upcoming A6-3600, except for the fact that it…
Continuing with its Fusion family rollout AMD has now officially launched their A-Series of accelerated processing units -- or APUs. Unlike the low-power flavor of Fusion chips already on the market, the C-Series (Ontario) and E-Series (Zacate) for netbooks and…
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