Sapphire is looking to give AMD’s APU users who are looking for a value motherboard a treat with its Pure Platinum A55V motherboard for the Llano FM1 socket APUs. The motherboard boasts a fairly basic layout but Sapphire has made sure to provide all the essential goodies.

A benchmark comparing AMD’s upcoming A10-5800K Trinity APU with the current A8-3850 Llano APU has surfaced in the web. The results are quite impressive as the upcoming Trinity chip managed to show a 50% performance improvement in graphics compared to the current Llano chip.

AMD is now preparing to launch to the retail channel the low cost dual core A4-3420 APU that has been originally available to OEM manufacturers only since January this year.

Sapphire has launched the EDGE-HD3 Mini PC that is powered by AMD’s E450 APU running at 1.65GHz and integrates a Radeon HD 6320 graphics. With its small size and slim design, the EDGE-HD3 Mini PC is no bigger than a paperback book but still packs enough features to pass as an all-around low powered mini PC for the home and office.

AMD’s Trinity APUs that are scheduled to arrive in the second quarter are expected to bring significant performance increase compared to the previous generation Llano APUs. We already know that they will be based on AMD’s Piledriver CPU architecture and will be manufactured using the 32nm fab process. What we don’t know are their technical specifications but luckily, reliable sources were able to share with Turkish website DonanimHaber those missing bits of information.

Throughout this year, AMD is scheduled to release its second generation APUs codenamed “Trinity” and at the same time, also the second generation FX-series CPUs. All these new chips will feature AMD’s new Piledriver CPU architecture that promises to bring better IPC performance compared to Bulldozer.

AMD has really undergone a lot of changes lately in terms of its organizational structure and strategies. The latest addition now to those new strategies is the company’s decision to acquire IBM to manufacture its chips.

During the AMD Financial Analyst Day held last Thursday, a number of executive presentations were given by the company’s top executives. Among those is AMD Senior Vice President and General Manager, Global Business Units, Lisa Su’s presentation about the performance of the upcoming Trinity ULV (Ultra Low Voltage) APUs in comparison with Intel’s offerings.

On the Financial Analyst Day held on Thursday, AMD presented its plans for its CPUs for this year and next year. The roadmap detailed chips from both the desktop and mobile segment as well as some brief details about the company’s next generation GPUs.

If there’s anything AMD’s processors are very good at, it is their ability to be able to withstand very high overclocked frequencies and still live after to brag about those feats to Intel’s chips. The latest achievement for AMD however, does not come from its performance FX-series of CPUs but rather from its more budget friendly A-series Llano APU family.

Back at CES, people saw a very interesting display - an MSI WindPad 110W running Google’s Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. Although Android is indeed optimized to run on tablets, the point if interest here is that the MSI WindPad was running on AMD’s Brazo APU which by default is not supported by Android.

Arctic (formerly Arctic Cooling) is now planning to sue Advanced Micro Devices for using the ‘Fusion’ brand name. Arctic is said to have acquired the brand name from Boot Up International Ltd. and apparently has a trademark registered for it which is valid in Europe.

It seems Intel has finally succeeded in driving the market into embracing its Ultrabook concept that its competitors are starting to come up with their own solution to counter the emerging platform. One particular and the biggest challenger so far is AMD who has announced that it too will be releasing a similar platform which it calls Ultrathin.

The slide presentation of yesterday’s reported AMD mobile Trinity APU that was said to be a 17W variant has now had its slide presentation leaked by ComputerBase. The slide details some new features that come with the new chip as well as performance gains over the current Llano A-series APUs.

AMD showcased its Trinity APUs, one of its major offerings for the year at the CES event at Las Vegas. Unlike the one that Intel did on its Ivy Bridge processor and epicly failed doing it, AMD managed to really surprise and impress the people with its demo of its Trinity APU.

Taiwan based developer BungBungame who is better known for coming out with smartphone based application software has now released its own tablet PC that comes powered by AMD’s Z01 APU while sporting business class features.

Following the news that AMD plans to release a new FX processor right after Christmas, a new report now states that there will also be two new APUs that will join the launch. The  two new chips are the A8-3870K and A6-3670K that both come with unlocked multipliers and faster clock speeds compared to their respective counterparts that are currently out in that market.

AMD has quietly added a total of seven new models to its Llano A-series mobile lineup. The new chips include “MX” parts which act as the mainstream models and “M” parts which are power optimized chips.

AMD’s Llano APUs are not exactly disappointments like their bigger FX-series brothers putting the demand for them at good levels. The only problem was the chips encountered yield problems that led to minimal shipments. Luckily, the case for Trinity, AMD’s next generation APU is different as Fudzilla’s sources now tell that the new chips have much better yield compared to Llano.

Yesterday’s report about AMD giving hints that it might no longer continue its business in the desktop processor segment has stirred quite a lot of discussion but now it seems all is not lost as the company has now given a statement that was published by The Verge saying that it remains committed to their x86 microprocessors.

The first benchmarks of AMD’s upcoming Trinity APUs have surfaced. DonanimHaber presents the information in their website through a video presentation showcasing internal benchmarks that seem to have been be done by AMD itself comparing the Trinity APUs to the current Llano APUs.

AMD’s Deccan platform, the supposedly successor to its Brazos platform that involved the Zacate E-series and Ontario C-series of APUs has now been cancelled as stated by an online report coming from SemiAccurate. The upcoming platform was supposed to bring in the Wichita and Krishna APUs, the successor to the Zacate and Ontario respectively, but have now been moved out of the way for reasons that are still not clear.

Major motherboard makers have already provided their BIOS/UEFI updates for their FM1 motherboards in preparation of the upcoming new models and it seems that the latest additions will not just be new A-series APUs but will also include Sempron and Athlon II brandings as well.

DonanimHaber has published new information regarding AMD’s upcoming Trinity APUs which are set to replace the current Llano and according to the information, the new chips will be compatible with AMD’s A75 chipset that Llano chips are currently utilizing now but will adapt the FM2 socket design.

A recent leak of the AMD Catalyst Driver 8.91 on the internet has revealed information on the next generation Radeon HD 7000 series GPUs. The driver suite apparently contains references including codenames as well as brandings for the upcoming GPUs.

Acer has released two new notebooks, the 15.6-inch Aspire 5560 and the 17.3-inch Aspire 7560 that both come pack with AMD’s latest A-series of APUs with as much as four cores and integrated graphics plus the ability to enable CrossFireX mode with a discrete GPU for improved graphics performance.

Launched earlier this year, Acer’s Aspire One 522 and 722 netbooks have now both received the new C-60 APU from AMD featuring two Bobcat x86 cores each running at 1.0 GHz base frequency and 1.33 GHz Turbo Frequency. A Radeon HD 6290 graphics that is DirectX 11 capable and has 276 MHz frequency (400 MHz Turbo) comes with the C-60.

Zotac International in its goal of providing the best PC hardware has announced a new mini-ITX motherboard, the A75-ITX WiFi that was designed for AMD’s A and E series of accelerated processing units or APUs carrying the FM1 socket design.

It seems AMD just won’t let Intel take the entire spotlight this week as it has made some announcements itself and included in those is the showcasing of a notebook running Deus Ex: Human Revolution that is claimed to be powered by the company’s yet to be released Trinity APU.

AMD adds two new chips to its A-series of APUs with the release of the A4-3400 and A4-3300 that both feature dual x86 cores with an integrated Radeon HD DirectX 11 capable graphics processing unit and are aimed at the entry level market.