Five A-Series Llano Fusion APUs from AMD Set for July

Advanced Micro Devices doesn't have mainstream Fusion processors on sale yet, but it plans to unleash its first batch in July, a collection that will include five models with two or four cores each.

Advanced Micro Devices may finally be dealing in its long-awaited Fusion chips and chipsets, but its APUs (accelerated processing units) are still limited to just the low-end mobile PC market.

Basically, the only computing devices that are using Zacate and Ontario units are netbooks, some ultraportables and a tablet or two, plus nettops.

In order to compete with Intel on the desktop front as well, the Sunnyvale, California-based outfit will release the Llano series.

The first set of such chips will debut at the start of the third quarter of 2011, in July, will be part of the A series and shall include five models, according to a document that X-bit Labs claims to have seen.

One of them shall be a dual-core processor with a TDP (thermal design power) of 65W, while the rest will be quad-core APUs with the same power draw, or 100W in the case of the more powerful ones.

The quad-core APUs (can have four K10.5+/Husky x86 cores) have Radeon HD 6000 “BeaverCreek” graphics, with 320 or 400 Stream processors.

Meanwhile, the dual-core (two x86 cores) comes with “WinterPark” HD 6000 graphics, which features 160 Stream Processors.

For those that need a reminder, the 32nm process technology is employed in the manufacture of the desktop processors. Also, a dual-channel DDR3 memory controller, plus up to 4MB of cache memory and Turbo Core (dynamic overclocking) are built into them.

Commercial availability is scheduled for the week of July 20, although more Llanos will come out afterwards. More specifically, a low-end, dual-core will debut later in the third quarter, followed by the A-Series of A8, A6 and A4 in Q4.