AMD Fusion Netbook Processors Promise 10+ Hour Battery Life, DX11

From DailyTech: Intel thundered into the week of the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show, with its official announcement of its second-generation Core i-Series lineup, based on the company's new architecture Sandy Bridge. Today, AMD has is countering with a new processor family aimed at Intel’s popular Atom processor and low-end Sandy Bridge processors.

The company today officially announced the availability of its first Fusion CPUs, which had been in development under the code-name Brazos. Writes AMD Products Group senior vice president and general manager Rick Bergman states in a press release, "Fusion processors are, quite simply, the greatest advancement in processing since the introduction of the x86 architecture more than forty years ago."

The introductory models begin with the power-sipping Ontario lineup, which has now been officially branded the "C-Series". The C-30 comes with one core, clocked at 1.2 GHz. The C-20 comes with two cores, clocked at 1.0 GHz. The TDP for both processors is 9 watts.

Next up is Zacate. This code-named lineup has been rebranded the "E-Series". The E-240 packs a single 1.5 GHz processor core, while the E-250 packs a pair of cores clocked at 1.6 GHz.

For a lengthy review of what's inside refer to our previous article on Brazos.

The key to AMD's claims is not only the brand new Bobcat core architecture that powers the chips, but in the GPU that AMD has packaged onboard.

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