14 DAY TRIAL // Earlier today the first pictures depicting an early engineering sample of a desktop AMD Bulldozer processor made their way to the Web and now, the soon-to-be-released Llano was also caught on camera together with the FM1 socket that is supposed to house these second-generation Fusion APUs.
Just as it was the case with the Bulldozer processor we presented earlier, the OPN number of the chip was also erased in order to conceal its TDP as well as other details about the CPU.
However, from the images posted it’s clear that this is a FM1 processor as the socket picture and CPU pin layout seem to resemble a great deal, and surely don't look like anything AMD has launched previously.
According to a CPU-Z screenshot, the chip seems to be working at 2.4GHz and it packs four processing cores.
Judging from what we now about Llano until now, the APU also features a BeaverCreek on-die GPU that can pack 320 or 400 stream processors, 4MB of Level 2 cache memory, an integrated PCI Express 2.0 controller and an integrated dual-channel DDR3 1866MHz memory controller.
Select models will also include AMD's Turbo Core 2.0 technology which automatically adjusts clock speed depending on the CPU load.
Its TDP should be rated at either 65W or 100W and, like all other Llano APUs, this is built using the 32nm SOI fabrication process.
Llano is AMD's second-generation Fusion APU and it combines two or four x86 processing cores with a on-die GPU that is based on the Radeon HD 6000 architecture.
The first chips have already started shipping at the beginning of the week and the official launch is expected to take place later this quarter. The initial batch of desktop chips includes four quad-core and one dual-core APUs. (via Zol.com.cn)
