14 DAY TRIAL // Even though AMD's Llano APUs are expected to make their official debut in less than a month from now, details regarding the accompanying FM1 motherboards have been scarce until now, but recently a desktop test board has been spotted online to offer us additional information about the A75 FCH.
As it's usually the case with test products, the motherboard pictured won't make it into production and is only meant to give us a few hints about the features of the upcoming FM1 solutions that should appear in the not-so-distant future.
Going for a quick visual inspection, we get to see that the board offers native USB 3.0 support (which means it's based on the A75 FCH), a single x16 PCI Express slot, two open ended x4 PCI-E slots, a mini PCI-E slot and a legacy PCI slot.
Another x1 PCI Express slot is located right in the middle of the board, next to some headers for oscilloscopes and other testing equipment.
CPU power is provided by what appears to be 3+2 phase setup, which suggests that despite the fast on-die GPU, AMD's Llano processors are quite frugal when it comes down to power consumption.
However, the same thing can't be said about the A75 FCH which seems to require active cooling, although I suspect this is just a safety measure taken by AMD for testing purposes.
Llano APUs are based on the K10.5+/Husky x86 architecture and outside of the on-die graphics, they also feature an integrated dual-channel DDR3 memory controller, a PCI Express controller, up to 4MB of cache and select processors pack AMD's Turbo Core 2.0 dynamic acceleration technology.
According to a previous report, the mobile version of the Llano APUs is expected to launch on June 1, while the desktop edition of the CPU is slated for a June 14 release. (via VR-Zone)