AMD Refreshes C- and E-Series Fusion APUs
New Fusion for modest price points.
Netbooks may not be the hot item they once were, but they actually more capable than ever, partly thanks to AMD's C- and E-Series APUs. AMD updated its offering of these chips with greater efficiency, which means longer battery life than before.
The E-series now has up to 10.5 hours of resting battery life, and the C-Series pushes it to 12 hours.
Additionally, the updated E-Series APUs feature:
* DDR3 1333 support for enhanced memory bandwidth and faster performance and video playback.
* HDMI 1.4a connections allow for viewing 3D pictures and home video on 3D- enabled TVs and displays.
Products from leading PC manufacturers based on these new APUs are available starting today and can be identified by the VISION Technology from AMD or HD Internet stickers.
AMD has shipped more than 12 million APUs, and sold more than five million of the popular C- and E-Series APUs in Q2 2011 alone.

What I really want to know is whether one of these (the E-450, especially)on a mini-ITX can smoothly handle a Ceton InfiniTV (4 CableCard HD streams)for HTPC and do a decent job accelerating Flash and Silverlight 5. Why? - 30 watts or so total usage and silence.
How about shipping Bulldozer CPU's in 2011 too!!
Number of hours of battery life is a meaningless statistic for a CPU (or APU). How big is the battery? What else is connected to it? A screen, perhaps?
What I really want to know is whether one of these (the E-450, especially)on a mini-ITX can smoothly handle a Ceton InfiniTV (4 CableCard HD streams)for HTPC and do a decent job accelerating Flash and Silverlight 5. Why? - 30 watts or so total usage and silence.
What?!? They make different kinds of batteries?? Now I'm confused...
How about shipping Bulldozer CPU's in 2011 too!!
AMD Fusion C-60 and E-450. The main difference is that the C-60 supports Turbo CORE and can go up to 1.33GHz from the default 1GHz on the CPU and up to 400MHz from the default 277MHz on the GPU. As for the E-450, it differs from the E-350 by having a 50MHz higher CPU clock speed (1.65GHz), a 16MHz higher GPU clock speed (508MHz), and by supporting GPU Turbo that allows it to go up to 600MHz.
Why the hell do you need so much power on your phone? I'd love it if i could get a 3 day standby with normal use on my Moto Droid with the -STOCK- battery. But no, i'm lucky if it lasts 8 hours.
No. 9W TDP is too high for a smartphone or a tablet in heat output and power consumption. Tablets are a bit better in this regard as they have bigger chassis and can hold bigger batteries, so AMD made the Fusion Z-01 which has a 5.9W TDP for that niche. In terms of performance it's the same as the C-50 but it consumes less power.
The A4-3300M series was about 3 times as powerful as the E-350 according to passmark scores.Sure the battery life on the E-350 based ultraportable was better but not substantially so.I came to the conclusion that the it's too exorbitant to get the E series APU's for the benefit of having a ultraportable and one is better off economically going for a smaller A4 series notebook (it's much better at gaming too).
I'd like another Z model release based on the C-60, now that would make for a stout tablet.
I will give AMD credit for these APU's being better then Atom's. But that's not saying much. Its really a moot point anyway, Small netbooks or notebooks are kind of dead anyway.
There's a market for cheap laptops and a market for internet devices (phones). Something anaemic in between is pretty pointless.
Clock speed says very little about performance. Even on the CPU side, AMD's offerings outperform Atom by a wide margin (thanks to thinkgs like out of order execution).
Netbooks dead? They hype's over, but dead is too strong a word. There will always be a market for netbooks, as all of their competitors have a fundamental flaw:
- Tablets? Fun, not functional.
- ULV laptops? Almost as small and far more powerful, but more expensive.
- Ultrabooks/Macbook Air/high end ULV-thingies? Even more powerful, but also even more expensive.
What TDP and power requirements have these chips?
It's important for knowing the thermal budget, not electrical one.