Fusion

We have known that AMD’s E-450 APU would be hitting the market sometime in 2011 and now with ASUS’ launch of the E45M1-M PRO Fusion motherboard we have just that! The dual-core E-450 APU is the star of this motherboard with its 1.65 GHz clock speed and integrated DirectX 11-capable Radeon HD 6320 graphics processor. For [...]

While we are anticipating the launch of  AMD’s “Llano” Fusion APU’s this month, the folks over at X-bit Labs are reporting that Llano’s successor, codenamed Trinity, will in-fact use AMD’s high-end Bulldozer x86 cores and feature very-capable Direct 11 graphics. The “Trinity” APU’s are expected to launch sometime in 2012. For more on this story, head [...]

After a day full of news surrounding AMD’s upcoming FX-series CPUs and 990FX motherboards we finally have a rumour to report surrounding AMD’s upcoming “Llano” APU platform. Softpedia is reporting, via images grabbed by Nordic Hardware from a leak on the official AMD site, that the new “Llano” APUs due out soon absolutely crush AMD’s [...]

With AMD readying two different platforms (Zambezi/FX-series and “Llano”) for launch in the coming months, we have been providing our readers with the most up-to-date rumours and previews regarding motherboards, CPUs and chipsets. This continues today with a look at another upcoming “Llano” motherboard from GIGABYTE, the GA-A75M-UD2H.

Everyone, and their mother, is reporting that the next generation of AMD Fusion chipsets (A75 and A70M) will be sporting official USB 3.0 support. Enthusiast motherboards have been using third party chipsets in order to provide USB 3.0 ports for some time now, but we have yet to see a great number of official USB [...]