Like Llano, the processor combined a CPU and GPU on a single slice of silicon.
As interesting is that AMD accomplished this with the same 32nm SOI process technology as Llano at Globalfoundries.
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By removing this objection, AMD is in a much better position to drive significantly more business than its predecessor, Llano.
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Unlike Llano, it could be cranked out cheaply using older manufacturing technology.
Even though Trinity doesn't have smaller transistors, it still packs 100 million more of them compared to the preceding generation of Llano chips.
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Whereas Brazos was gnawing around the edges, Llano goes after the fat middle and is therefore likely to be a much more important part ultimately.
Brazos has low-power processor, so with the launch of Llano, AMD will be looking to better its position in the heavier performance notebook segment as well.
Llano draws a bit more power (the company claims 10 hours of resting battery life and three hours running the brutal 3DMark06 benchmark), but sports much better graphics.
The telescope, which is due to be completed by 2012, will consist of 66 radio antennae spread across the Llano de Chajnantor plateau, 5, 000 meters above sea level.
The hardware manufacturing community welcomed Brazos, which launched with about 150 design wins, and it looks as if they are similarly enthusiastic about Llano, which has already garnered 145.
Whereas Brazos was aimed at smaller systems netbooks, smaller notebooks, and tablets that draw 9 watts (C Series) or 18 watts (E Series), Llano, now formally named the AMD A Series APU, is targeted at systems that draw 35 watts (A4 and A6) or 45 watts (A8).
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