14 DAY TRIAL // While AMD won't officially release its A-Series Llano processors until mid-June, the company has already announced the successor of these high-power APU units, the so-called Trinity chip, that is expected to arrive in 2012.
The announcement was made at this year's Computex fair where AMD has also presented a prototype Trinity accelerated processing unit (APU).
From what we do know until know, this is going to be based on AMD's Piledriver x86 core, which is paired together with a DirectX 11-enabled Radeon HD on-die GPU with support for the Hybrid CrossFireX technology.
The Piledriver core is actually derived from the high-performance Bulldozer architecture and some reports indicate that Trinity will use the same AM3+ socket as the upcoming AMD FX-series processors.
AMD refrained form making any comments regarding the development state of the Trinity APU.
During the same event, AMD also presented its new Vision branding as well as its new platform logos and market strategy.
On June 14, the Sunnyvale company will introduce its first high-performance APU design, the A-Series Llano processors, which are targeted at the high-end and mainstream notebook space as well as at the midrange desktop space.
The initial launch will include eight mobile processors that feature between two and four processing cores and have a TDP of 35 or 45 Watts, depending on the model.
Their speed will range from 1.4GHz to 2.1 GHz and all of these will support AMD's Turbo Core 2.0 technology that automatically adjusts the clock speed of the processor, according to the load that is placed on them.
Outside of the x86 CPU cores, Llano APUs also include a Radeon HD 6000-derived graphics core that packs between 160 and 400 stream processors, which work at either 400MHz or 444MHz. (via VR-Zone)
