AMD’s Plan to Take Back Laptops: The Llano “APU” [Processors]
If you want a laptop with graphics and battery performance that isn’t totally embarrassing, you’re basically stuck with some combination of Intel and Nvidia gear. Now, finally, AMD’s Llano, a CPU/GPU combo, or “APU”, could give us a serious alternative.
AMD running with the “Application Processor Unit” name isn’t as gimmicky as it sounds, because the Llano is genuinely unique: It’s four processing cores and a DX11-capable GPU on a single processor die. In simpler terms, this means that AMD has created a tidy little system on a chip, aimed at a few portable markets. In the simplest terms, they’ve shrunk laptop graphics and processing into a single chip, which saves power and space.
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