14 DAY TRIAL // It seems that even though announcements at CeBIT are fewer than one would expect, AMD was still able to turn some heads by entering its Fusion architecture into one of the largest markets in the world, the one in Cina to be exact.
As consumers no doubt know, Advanced Micro Devices now has its own means of competing in the mobile PC field, especially on the lower half of the market.
Granted, Intel still dominates the market, as it always has, but the Sunnyvale, California-based company has also been gradually gaining market share since it made a serious grab for the laptop segment last year.
Still, PC makers began to seriously use its hardware once its long-awaited Fusion technology finally arrived.
That said, notebooks powered by the E Series APUs (Zacate) and the C series processors (Ontario) have been coming out for weeks.
Still, until recently, the company had not sent its technology to China, one of the fastest-growing emerging markets in the world.
Seeing as how Fusion is intended for low-cost machines, at least until the mightier Llano comes out, AMD actually has a good opportunity for growth in this country.
That said, the outfit held a press conference in Beijing, China, where it revealed how more than 30 new products based on its APUs would soon start selling.
The E-350 dual-core and E-240 single-core chips will power such things as all-in-one (AiO) PCs, notebooks and small form factor PCs (nettops).
Meanwhile, the Ontario C-50 dual-core and C-30 single-core will be used mostly in netbooks, otherwise known as entry-level mobile personal computers.
PC makers set to unleash Fusion devices are Sony, Fujitsu, HP, Lenovo, Dell, Toshiba, Acer, MSI (Micro-Star International) and ASUS.
As for the aforementioned quad-core Llano, it should be officially made available before the middle of the ongoing year and shall employ the 32nm manufacturing process technology from Globalfoundries.