Bangkok--15 Jun--PR Associates
New AMD Fusion APUs enable brilliant graphics, supercomputer-like performance and all day battery life
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AMD today announced the next generation in mainstream consumer computing with the availability of the new high-performance AMD Fusion A-Series Accelerated Processing Units (APUs). Enabling truly immersive computing experiences in consumer notebooks and desktops, the AMD A-Series APUs enable brilliant HD graphics, supercomputer-like performance and over 10.5 hours of battery life . AMD Thailand said both notebooks and desktops with A-Series APUs will be available in Thailand in the same week.
“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.
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 throughout the second quarter of 2011 and beyond. Delivering powerful serial and parallel computing capabilities for HD video, 3D rendering and data-intensive workloads in a single-die processor, the AMD A-Series APUs offer software developers unprecedented power and potential in an ever smaller package.
AMD Thailand Country Manager Chukkrit Watcharasaksilp said, “The A-Series APU heralds the arrival of brilliant all-new computing experiences, and enables unprecedented graphics and video performance in notebooks and PCs. The best news of the day is beginning today AMD is bringing discrete-class graphics to the mainstream.”
He said in an increasingly digital and visually oriented world, consumers are placing ever-higher priorities on multitasking, vivid graphics, lifelike games, lag-free videos, and ultimate multimedia performance. To meet these needs, the AMD A-Series APUs combine up to four x86 CPU cores with powerful DirectXฎ11-capable discrete-level graphics and up to 400 Radeon cores along with dedicated HD video processing on a single chip. AMD A-Series APUs also allow for advanced capabilities such as gestural interfaces, multi-monitor support, 3D entertainment and real-time image stabilization .
“Consumers and AMD enthusiasts in Thailand will get their hands on the exciting A-Series APU as early as in the same week as it is launched globally in USA, with a host of vendors offering a range of notebooks and desktop PCs,” said Chukkrit.
He disclosed that Acer will be the first brand to have the products available in mid-June 2011 while Asus and Hewlett Packard are launching their own by the end of June. Others to follow suit are Sumsung, Toshiba, Sony and Lenovo which are expected to put their products in the local market in July.
About AMD
AMD (NYSE: AMD) is a semiconductor design innovator leading the next era of vivid digital experiences with its groundbreaking AMD Fusion Accelerated Processing Units (APUs) that power a wide range of computing devices. AMD’s server computing products are focused on driving industry-leading cloud computing and virtualization environments. AMD’s superior graphics technologies are found in a variety of solutions ranging from game consoles, PCs to supercomputers. For more information, visit http://www.amd.com .