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

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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AMD TO RELEASE GRAPHICS CARDS WITH DIRECTX 11 CAPABILITIES

AMD claims that its latest graphics hardware based on the DirectX 11 standard will make the graphics performance in Windows 7 better and smoother. The new graphics cards will be first used in desktop PCs, and are expected to be available for laptops early next year.

AMD has already unveiled discrete ATI GPUs with DirectX 11 capabilities. The desktop products will be released by the time Windows 7 arrives. The new graphics cards to feature the technology will be in the form of discrete GPUs. AMD expects to release integrated GPUs by 2011.

DirectX 11 is a set of programming interfaces supported by Windows 7. It will make images appear more realistic. Read more…

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