That's the APU... not of the Kwik-E-Mart.
Earlier this week, we learned that AMD was shipping finished Llano APU products to its OEM partners. They're not moving out in retail boxed form yet, as OEMs get the first crack to make machines around them.
"When we say we are shipping production units of any part for the first time, the next question I inevitably get asked is how does AMD define 'production'?" wrote Phil Hughes, Senior PR Manager at AMD. "When we talk about production here at AMD, it refers to the units that will ultimately be in the systems that our OEM partners will ship to retailers or end-customers."
Hughes added that customers should expect to see product within the next few months.
These quad-core parts are AMD's answer to the more performance-oriented desktop crowd, and it seems that at least one person out there managed to get their hands on an engineering sample.
The pictures you see here were found on a Chinese site. For those who were wondering what kind of socket that Llano would use, it appears that it'll be FM1.
Bear in mind these chips are on 32nm but w/ husky cores (rather than the new bulldozer cores), so that power consumption isn't too extraordinary and somewhat expected. Probably won't see CPU speed match sandy bridge, but in terms of power consumption it should be close and the fusion APU will probably double the sandy bridge HD3000 performance. Could make a great desktop chip for those who aren't powering 1080i monitors for gaming and it'll probably make a fantastic laptop chip
Ouch, guess you have destroyed a few CPU's in your time by damaging the pins.
I have seen more LGA (Intel) sockets destroyed beyond use than PIN design (AMD)!
Personally prefer the pins being on the CPU and not the other way around!
Llano is a Phenom II dieshrink without the L3 cache(basically Athlon II).
This will be for the high end laptops/low end desktops.
This will be their "APU", with(most likely) a weaker processor than Sandy Bridge, but a stronger GPU for acceleration.
The jump in voltage is mostly from a lower clockspeed, it seems people are mistaking that Phenom II's in the desktop are at 3.4ghz+@1.3V or so.
a 1ghz drop in clock will allow them to drop the voltage quite a bit, then the die being made at 32nm would lower it some more.