AMD, at its sixth annual Technical Forum and Exhibition (TFE), showcased for its ecosystem partners the first public demonstration of the forthcoming AMD Fusion accelerated processing unit (APU) codenamed Llano, designed for notebooks, ultra-thin notebook and desktops.
The Llano APU demo showed three compute-intensive workloads simultaneously on Microsoft Windows 7, including calculating the value of Pi to 32 million decimal places, and decoding HD video from a Blu-ray disc. Running concurrent to the CPU and HD video playback applications, Microsoft's nBody DirectCompute application was shown achieving around 30 GFLOPS (as reported in the application) a relative measure of the available capacity to post-process video during playback, play a DirectX 11 game, or assist the CPU cores to accelerate a non-graphics application. The demonstration represents a preview of Llano's raw compute power enabling new levels of experience computing that AMD aims to bring to mainstream PC users in 2011, the company said.
Chris Cloran, AMD's VP of client division, holding a Llano wafer
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Article translated by Joseph Tsai
