14 DAY TRIAL // AMD will soon expand its APU lineup with a new series of low-power chips from the C and E-Series, and recently the first notebooks to use one of these processors, the E-450 to be more exact, was listed on Dell's HK website.
Once it is officially released, the E-450 will become AMD's fastest Bobcat accelerated processing units, replacing the E-350 that was launched at the beginning of this year.
The chip itself is a tweaked version of the APU is meant to replace, raising the operating frequency of the two cores from 1.6GHz to 1.65GHz, while also adding a series of new features.
The most important of these is the addition of Turbo Core support, that can temporary boost the frequency of the processors cores as well as those of the integrated graphics core to deliver improved performance.
Another new feature is the introduction of support for DDR3 memory running at 1333MHz, which should significantly improve the bandwidth available to the integrated graphics core.
All these changes won't affect the TDP of the chip as this is rated at the same 18W as its predecessor.
The first notebook powered by this processors, the Inspiron M102z, can now be ordered from Dell's Hong Kong website.
Outside of AMD's APU, the base configuration of the M102z also sports 4GB of DDR3 system memory, a 500GB hard drive, a 1.3MP webcam, as well as 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity.
The WLED screen measures 11.6-inch in diagonal and features a native resolution of 1366x768 pixels, while the whole notebook is powered by a 6-cell battery pack.
Dell's Inspiron M102z notebook starts at 4180 Hong Kong dollars, which translates into about $536 USD. The AMD E-450 is expected to be officially unveiled in September. (via CPU-World)