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AMD Llano Notebook Platform Coming 2011: Quad-Core, DirectX 11

Details on AMD’s Llano have leaked out. Llano is AMD’s next-generation mobile processor featuring four cores and built-in graphics. The integrated graphics core will be DirectX 11-compatible as it is derived from the company’s current ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5000 series core (Evergreen). Llano will be manufactured on a 32nm process and use DDR3 memory. The quad-core processor is expected to run at 3GHz+ clockspeeds and each core will have 1MB of cache for a total of 4MB L2.

Llano will feature new power-saving capabilities.

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ASUS, A-DATA Intro USB 3.0 Products

ASUS has partnered with A-DATA to introduce new products using the new USB 3.0 standard. USB 3.0 has a maximum data transfer rate 10x that of the current USB 2.0 technology.

The first product is the A-DATA NH01 USB 3.0-complaint external hard drive, which also has an eSATA port. It will be available in multiple colors with up to 640GB capacity. Also introduced was the N002 external USB 3.0 drive with SATA II. The company demonstrated the product reading and writing data at 200MB/s and 170MB/s, respectively.

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Acer Not Interested in Producing iPad Competitor

Acer Taiwan President Scott Lin said in a DigiTimes report that the company will not be producing an Apple iPad competitor. An iPad-like device would not fit into Acer’s business model, apparently. Instead the company is going to continue pushing ultra-thin notebooks this year, which are expected to account for 20-30% of its shipments. Standard-sized notebooks account for 50-60% of Acer’s shipments, and netbooks 20%. Last year the company shipped about 31 million notebooks.

The 10008P has some new features about it and ones that will certainly make people take a second look at it. ASUS brought in a top designer to re-imagine the look of the 1008P giving it a Digi-Wave lid which resembles crocodile skin. The design gives it a higher-class look. The 1008P comes in a hot pink or matte coffee finish which may be less desirable to some buyers.

The Eee PC1008P is a lot thinner than most other netbooks on the market with a 1-inch thick chassis. All the ports are hidden behind rubber flaps. There is a mini VGA port on the left side of the device as well as a VGA adapter that pops out of the bottom of the netbook. Read more…