News - AMD's Zacate to be first Fusion APU chip?

[HEXUS]

Aimed at mainstream notebooks and available in Q4 2010, according to leaked roadmap.

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[Jimbo75]

It's Ontario, Llano was pushed back by a couple of months and Ontario brought forward by 3-6 months according to Dirk Meyer in the last quarterly report.

We might see some Ontario stuff before Christmas but it will be a close call.

[kingpotnoodle]

Looks like they'll still come off worse vs Intel on the power/battery metrics.

Intel have a good range of Core iX chips available with dual cores, turbo etc on an 18W envelope right now, AMD are only going to manage a single core by the end of the year. The 540UM for example is only ~$250 wholesale.

[Jimbo75]

Kinda missing the point a bit kingpotnoodle, that is Ontario (Zacate) will likely have better graphics than even Sandy Bridge, and certainly way ahead of anything intel currently offers or anything you've seen in a netbook or lower end notebook. All that in a single 18w to 25w package.