14 DAY TRIAL // AMD will soon start manufacturing and sending out the various chips based on its Fusion architecture, and it seems that the Llano APUs will enter mass production during the first half of 2011, only to finally make it into systems during summer.
The Fusion architecture is AMD's project that places a DirectX 11 GPU on the same die as the central processing cores.
The Llano Chip is one of the best-known accelerated processing unit (APU) that the Sunnyvale, California company has in store.
For those interested in actual specification, the APU will have up to four x86 cores of even over 3.0GHz with dynamic clock scaling and the different versions of Llano will have TDPs of 20W to 59W.
The chip will be made based on the 32nm manufacturing process technology and should address a fairly wide consumer base, as it will be sold in multiple iterations, with differing TDPs, performance and prices.
More recently, it was reported that actual shipments of the Llano APU will commence during the first half of next year, with systems based on them only scheduled to enter availability in summer.
“While Ontario is oriented towards the netbook market, Llano is for the bulk of the market, in terms of mainstream and high-end notebooks and mainstream desktops,” said vice president of worldwide product marketing at AMD Leslie Sobon, in an interview with Inside Hardware web-site.
"Llano will start shipping in the first half or 2011, and products should be available in summer 2011," the AMD official went on to saying.
"Designing and selling to our customers is well underway, since it takes 12 to 18 months for notebook products to hit the market. And let me tell you one thing about Llano, the reaction of all our partners after seeing the demo was, in one word, 'whoa'," Ms. Sobon added.