14 DAY TRIAL // Advanced Micro Devices has been marketing its accelerated processing units quite successfully, but it has yet to cover all possible angles, something that may be remedied by October.
The Trinity architecture is found in various consumer notebooks, desktops and the mini PC/nettop/HTPC market.
There is one field where such SKUs have yet to debut though, that of business-oriented systems, but this gap will eventually be filled.
In fact, it has been established, through now removed product pages (Lenovo Solutions Centre Book) and trade show demos, that a number of business APUs are in the making.
The count currently stands at four, and the chips are part of the A4, A6, A8 and A10 lineups.
The A4-5300B, part number AD530BOKA23HJ, is a dual-core with 1 MB L2 cache memory, a clock speed of 3.4 GHz and a thermal design power (TDP) of 65 Watts.
The second chip, also a dual-core, is called A6-5400B and features the part number AD540BOKA23HJ. It operates at 3.6 GHz, but otherwise matches the other two-core SKU.
The A805500B (AD550BOKA44HJ) has four cores at 3.2 GHz each. Its L2 cache memory is of 4 MB, but the TDP is the same 65W as on the A4 and A6 units.
Finally, the A10-5800B, or AD580BWOA44HJ as shipment paperwork will know it, is a 3.8 GHz quad-core with 4 MB of L2 cache and a TDP of 100W.
This data is partially based on previous APU release history and speculation, so the specs may turn out to be slightly different (the clock speed especially) whenever AMD gets around to releasing the A-Series business processors.
Speaking of which, professional computers based on these APUs, like Lenovo ThinkCentre M78, are said to be scheduled for a September 11 launch, which is weeks earlier than the launch of the chips themselves.