14 DAY TRIAL // Developed especially for high-performance laptops and mainstream desktops, AMD's upcoming Llano processors will be available in at least three different SKUs as the company plans to offer both dual-core and quad-core chips as well as different on-die graphics.
This latest report comes from Fudzilla, which claims to have witnessed a demo comparing one such AMD chip with a Core i7 CPU at CeBIT 2011.
The demonstration was held behind closed doors by Leslie Sobon, vice president, Worldwide Product Marketing at AMD, and John Taylor, director, Client Product & Software Marketing.
In order to showcase the power of its new Fusion chip, AMD used a notebook powered by a 1.8GHz clocked Llano APU which ran the Final Fantasy demo together with Excel, HD video and a few other applications, all multitasking. This was compared with a Core i7 2GHz quad-core notebook running the same tasks.
According to Fudzilla, the Llano prototype system “ran smoother and needed 10 to 15W less than the Core i7 Sandy Bridge” laptop.
The demonstration looks surprisingly similar to a video that was posted earlier this week on YouTube by AMD.
Llano is AMD's second Fusion chip to be released this year, after the company introduced the Brazos platform during CES 2011.
The chip uses AMD's Stars processor architecture (found in Phenom II and Athlon II chips) with a few enhancements, and pairs it together with a DirectX 11 compatible on-die graphics core (known as the Radeon HD 6620M) which features six SIMD engines with 80 stream processors each.
Among the most important CPU enhancements brought to its design is the addition of an integrated PCIe 2.0 controller as well as the support for 1600MHz memory.
AMD expects Llano to launch this summer, some sources pointing to a Computex release. This year, the show will be held between May 31 and June 4.