AMD has recently unveiled its FusionA-series processors. The fusion chips introduced in AMD in early 2011were specifically designed to battle the Intel’s Atom CPU installedin netbooks along with mainstream laptops and low cost portable PC’s.The specifications of CPU are not equivalent to the Intel’s secondgeneration core processor, the Sandy Bridge. Although the new chipsintroduced by ADM are built for providing great graphic performanceand an enhanced battery life for laptops.

AMD shipped its first processors in thefirst half of the year in early January 2011. The dispatched productsinclude the Fusion’s processors of E and C series. The productsoffered by AMD are built on the same chip design as Intel’s whichhas made these products extremely renowned and celebrated for theusage in high quality netbooks as well as subnotebook. The C-serieshas a 9W TDP while the E series has 18W TDP. The E and C processorscomprises of either a single or a dual core CPU of 64 bits along withDDR3 memory controller and 80-core Radeon GPU. This constitutes inthe better performing E-series processor which is up to 326.5% betterthan its other counterparts. The ultraportable notebook is verysimilar to ordinary laptop computer, except the fact that they arevery small and lighter than typical laptop. The fusion processors byAMD enhance the CPU and graphic performance of these computers. AMDhas named these processors, APU an acronym for Accelerated ProcessingUnit. They are named so because of their capability to perform aseries of parallel processing tasks to the DirectX 11-capablegraphics.

Though the E and C series fusionprocessors are well received by enthusiasts across the world,unfortunately the products do not seem to be very promising. Theactual product worth a look is Llano, a chip code which has beenrecently launched as the A-series Accelerated Processing Unit. Thisnew chip has been specifically designed for mid priced laptopavailable in midsize as well. The release of Llano was expected forlong but was upheld due to some delays in the manufacturing of GlobalFoundries' 32-nanometer. Finally, the product is out in the marketand is ready for the usage of any customer. The manufacturing processused in the Llano chip is much smaller in comparison to the40-nanometer process developed by TSMC. The chips used in E and Cseries utilize far more powerful hardware than the other versionsavailable in market.

The A-series APU haven’t yet beentested on laptops but the chips undoubtedly look impressive inresponse to the specifications that have been put worth by AMD andare likely to work pretty well in laptops.