AMD's A-Series "Trinity" APUs to Cost from $59 to $131: Online Store
[09/03/2012 11:31 PM]
A U.S.-based online store has started to take pre-orders on dual-core and quad-core A-series Fusion "Trinity" accelerated processing units (APUs). Apparently, the new chips will be pretty inexpensive: their costs are expected to start at $59 in e-tail, whereas the top-of-the-range model will cost $131.
In case pricing of select A-series "Trinity" APUs published by Bottom Line Telecommunications Corp. is correct, then the new chips by AMD should be pretty competitive as AMD seems to position its Fusion A-series FM2 chips against Intel Corp.'s mainstream Core i3 and Pentium products, which do not integrate high-performance integrated graphics adapters or sport four x86 cores.
According to the store, the first A-series "Trinity" will be priced as follows:
The AMD A-series "Trinity" APUs feature up to four x86 cores powered by enhanced Bulldozer/Piledriver architecture, AMD Radeon HD 7000-series graphics core with DirectX 11-class graphics support, DDR3 memory controller and other improvements, such as new dynamic acceleration Turbo Core technology, improved video playback engines and so on. The new chip is made using 32nm process technology at Globalfoundries, just like its predecessor code-named Llano, but thanks to architectural improvements it is projected to be 25% - 50% faster - depending on the task - than the first-gen A-series APU.
AMD did not comment on the news-story.
Tags: AMD, Trinity, Fusion, 32nm, Radeon, Piledriver
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