AMD A-Series Fusion APU arriving to laptops this quarter

AMD has announced through its official blog that production of its 32nm quad-core “Llano” A-Series APU has begun and should appear in laptops before the end of this quarter.

The A-Series of Fusion chips should be offering great performance-per-watt as demonstrated by the Youtube video below where a quad-core Llano APU is put up against an Intel Core i7-2630QM processor through various tests with impressive results. The new series includes Radeon HD 6000-class “BeaverCreek” graphics and support up to 4MB of cache with multi-GPU graphics support, according to Xbitlabs. This should allow for much better performance than the already released E-Series and C-Series of Fusion chips.

The AMD Fusion processors are the result of the merger between AMD and Radeon a few years back, and are thus system on chips (SoC) with integrated CPU and GPU architecture for improved energy consumption and efficiency. The earlier E-Series and C-Series have been available for low-cost laptops and netbooks, but the A-Series should be making its way to mainstream laptops and desktops.

Laptops sporting the new A-Series APU will start at $499, according to PCWorld. Hopefully, specific models and dates will be announced soon within the coming months.

 Table above from Xbitlabs

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