AMD introduced several new chips based on its low power Bobcat core this year. They’re all Fusion chips, which means the CPU and graphics are all on the same piece of silicon. The AMD Zacate E-350 chip uses 18 Watts and is designed as a low cost, alternative to Consumer Ultra Low Voltage chips from […]
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Giada launches new line of mini-desktops with range of Intel, AMD chips
Giada has introduced three new mini-desktop computers that look more like optical disk drives than full-fledged computers. The company is no stranger to the nettop space, having brought a number of mini-desktops with low power Intel Atom chips to market over the past few years. But recently Giada has been branching out with mini-desktops that […]
AMD: More than 1 million Fusion chips shipped
AMD interim CEO Thomas Seifert says the company has shipped over a million of its new Fusion chips to partners including Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo, MSI, Samsung, Sony and Toshiba since launching the platform late last year. Those Fusion chips are low power Brazos chips which combine CPU and graphics onto a single chip. […]
AMD introduces G-Series Fusion chips for embedded systems
AMD’s new low power Ontario and Zacate chips have been getting a lot of attention recently. These are the first chips for consumer laptop and desktop computers from AMD to combine the CPU and GPU onto a single chip. The company’s codenamed for the platform is Fusion, and AMD calls the new type of chip […]
Sapphire introduces the first AMD Fusion desktop motherboard
Sapphire and ATI go way back — and somewhat more recently in the company’s history, Sapphire began branching out from video cards into mainboards. Now, they’ve become the first manufacturer to deliver a desktop motherboard featuring AMD’s new Fusion APU. The Pure White Fusion E350M1W is a mini-ATX board and it’s feature-packed. In addition to […]
HP Pavilion DM1 with AMD Fusion impresses in hands-on test
What can $480 buy you in an ultraportable? Quiet a nice little machine, according to HP — whose Pavilion DM1 has been given the hands-on treatment over at Laptop Mag. The DM1 features AMD’s Fusion APU with a dual-core CPU at 1.6GHz and Radeon HD 6310 GPU, 3GB of RAM (8GB max), 320GB 7200RPM hard […]
Acer launches Aspire One 522 netbook with AMD Fusion chip
As expected, Acer has officially announced a new AMD-powered 10 inch netbook. The Acer Aspire One 522 will ship with a new AMD Fusion processor, and while I’ve seen a lot of announcements for laptops with the new AMD E-350 Zacate chip, this is one of the first devices I’m aware of that will instead […]
Hands-on with the Lenovo ThinkPad X120e
If the laptop in the picture above looks familiar, there’s a good reason for that. It’s the Lenovo ThinkPad X120e, a brand new business-class laptop which looks almost exactly like the Lenovo ThinkPad X100e… a year-old business class laptop. There’s exactly one difference in the case design: The new model has an HDMI port. See […]
Sony unveils AMD Fusion-powered YB series notebook
A Sony notebook with a AMD Fusion APU for about $550? You bet. It’s the new YB series, and Sony’s packing in AMD’s 1.6Ghz E-350, Radeon HD 6310 graphics, 4GB of memory, a 500GB hard drive, HDMI output, 802.11 b/g/n wireless, Bluetooth 2.1 EDR+, 3 USB ports, and a backlit keyboard. The Sony YB Series […]
Zotac introduces nettop with AMD Fusion chip
Small form factor desktop maker Zotac is launching a new nettop with an AMD E-350 (Zacate) chip and integrated Radeon HD graphics. While we’ve already seen a number of laptops announced featuring AMD’s new low power chip, the Zotac AD03 is the first nettop announcement I’ve seen. The AMD E-350 chip combines AMD Radeon HD […]