Next week in San Francisco, AMD (NYSE: AMD) will unveil the first North America public demonstrations of its AMD Fusion Accelerated Processing Unit (APU) codenamed "Zacate," a new dualcore, 18watt TDP processor containing discretelevel graphics capabilities on die and designed to dramatically improve the user's PC experience. Targeting value and mainstream notebooks and desktops, "Zacate" APUbased platforms bring many of the vivid digital computing experiences once reserved for highend PCs into the opening price points of the mainstream segment.
What: Demonstrations of the experience consumers can expect to see early in 2011 from a broad range of mainstream notebook and desktop PCs based on the AMD Fusion APU codenamed "Zacate", including:
- Full HD streaming online video, showcasing the versatility of the "Zacate" APUbased platform to handle the most demanding multimedia tasks
- Immersive online gaming with high imagequality settings, demonstrating the DirectX® 11compliant "Zacate" APUbased platform
- Preview of accelerated Internet browsing, showing how "Zacate" APUbased platforms support the future of GPUenabled web browsing today and how these platforms perform sidebyside against currently available AMD- and Intel processorbased notebooks
When: Monday, September 13 through Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Where: San Francisco, CA
Who: Senior AMD executives and engineers responsible for AMD Fusion APUs
Throughout the week of September 13, 2010, AMD executives will provide frequent blog posts at blogs.amd.com on the company's demonstrations as well as commentary on new developments in the CPU, GPU and APU markets. The first two updates cover the consumer PC market and the software developer ecosystem.
For those in the community who wish to learn more about the demonstrations, please follow AMD on Twitter at @AMDUnprocessed, or on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/AMD.
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. AMD, the AMD Arrow logo, and combinations thereof, are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Other names are for informational purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective owners.
What: Demonstrations of the experience consumers can expect to see early in 2011 from a broad range of mainstream notebook and desktop PCs based on the AMD Fusion APU codenamed "Zacate", including:
- Full HD streaming online video, showcasing the versatility of the "Zacate" APUbased platform to handle the most demanding multimedia tasks
- Immersive online gaming with high imagequality settings, demonstrating the DirectX® 11compliant "Zacate" APUbased platform
- Preview of accelerated Internet browsing, showing how "Zacate" APUbased platforms support the future of GPUenabled web browsing today and how these platforms perform sidebyside against currently available AMD- and Intel processorbased notebooks
When: Monday, September 13 through Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Where: San Francisco, CA
Who: Senior AMD executives and engineers responsible for AMD Fusion APUs
Throughout the week of September 13, 2010, AMD executives will provide frequent blog posts at blogs.amd.com on the company's demonstrations as well as commentary on new developments in the CPU, GPU and APU markets. The first two updates cover the consumer PC market and the software developer ecosystem.
For those in the community who wish to learn more about the demonstrations, please follow AMD on Twitter at @AMDUnprocessed, or on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/AMD.
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. AMD, the AMD Arrow logo, and combinations thereof, are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Other names are for informational purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective owners.
