First Shots of AMD Llano, Socket FM1 in the Wild
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.


What happened to the AM3/3+ standard sockets?
It is strange, but I thought llano was for laptops, not desktops. Maybe I was wrong.
Apparently it's an engineering sample, and generally those are void of the real clock speeds and TDP of the real production chips that the consumer market sees.
I also thought llano was going in laptops, if it is then a quad core cpu with a intergrated gpu / FPU (whatever it is lold) at 2.4Ghz sounds like it is for the performance oriented croud.
2.4ghz at 0.394v is quite an achievement though, especially for laptops. I'm sure my PhenomII x4 B55 needs somewhere around 1.3v-1.6v for that speed and will probably be slower clock for clock.
I don't think the new APUs will really take the performance gap unless they can be highly overclocked like Sandy Bridge.
http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/display/20110315134650_Initial_Desktop_AMD_Llano_Lineup_Will_Include_Five_APUs_Documents.html
Looks to me like they will be for desktops too, so who's retarded now?
Did you visit the wiki?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Fusion
The following are desktop models:
E2-3250, A4-3350, A4-3360, A6-3450, A6-3450P, A6-3460, A6-3460P, A6-3550, A8-3550P, A8-3560, A8-3560P
This is the moble model:
A8-3510MX
Not sure if the sample is the desktop or notebook version, but the notebook version seems to be released first while the photo looks like a desktop version.
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
Ah well... Firmly rooted in Socket AM3 for now. Won't sniff anything new til 2015... less something blows up.
It's not a new CPU core, just a dieshrink. The integrated GPU and the pricing are where this thing will shine. Keep in mind, these chips are for entry level machines. They've got plenty of CPU power for your typical user, and a much better IGP than previous entry level units. Better even than the GPU in Sandy Bridge, with better driver support to boot.
Smells like seafood