AMD E-450 APU Gets Computex 2011 Preview

There has been quite some talk about what Intel has begun to show off at this year's Computex trade show, but AMD is no less prepared having brought forth, among other things, a new accelerated processing unit.

Since Computex is such a large computer and electronics trade show, it stands to reason that there would be a large bunch of devices on display, some newer than others.

Intel, of course, was quick in starting its activities, presenting such things as new tablet/netbook concepts and future plans.

The company even put on show a bunch of media tablets based on its x86 processors.

Of course, AMD has not been standing on the sidelines either, although it looks like its manufacturing partners are just as active.

In this instance, it is PowerColor that is responsible for the preview of an accelerated processing unit that Advanced Micro Devices has yet to deliver.

Simply put, the outfit made a small, simple motherboard powered by the Fusion architecture, specifically the E-450 APU.

One fact known, more or less, is that the chip has a clock speed of 1.65 GHz, as well as the Turbo Core technology, which can boost the performance of one core by lowing down the other.

Also, DDR3 memory is supported (frequency of up to 1,333 MHz), while the built-in DirectX 11 graphics solution is the Radeon HD 6320.

The motherboard on show is not particularly sophisticated, bit still carried a mini PCIe or mSATA connector, plus the rest of expected I/O (PS/2, USB, Ethernet, audio, etc).

Of course, this is just an early sample, and one shouldn't be too quick to hope the new APU will start selling all that soon. Still, with Intel speeding things up, it wouldn't be that odd if AMD did the same to the Fusion.