14 DAY TRIAL // Advanced Micro Devices has just released a new accelerated processing unit (APU for short), called A4-1350.
Well, that's not totally accurate. AMD calls it the AMD Elite Quad-Core A4-1350 accelerated processor.
Then again, as the second core accelerated processing unit in the category of small screen touch notebooks, tablets, and hybrids, one might say it deserves the name.
It will be released in October, at which point it will dazzle its admirers with its 3W power draw, 175% increase in performance-per-watt (compared to its predecessor), up to 12 hours of battery life (45 percent longer than before) and a fifth-fold rise in GPU performance compared to the competition.
I can't wait to see how badly NVIDIA's Logan wipes the floor with it in 2014. NVIDIA did say Logan would give tablets console-like graphics.
Then again, 2014 is quite some time off, so AMD doesn't have to worry about that.