When AMD presented its figures for Q4 2010 it decided to inform everyone about the start of 2011. Besides shipping over 35 million DirectX 11 GPUs its Fusion APU platform got a good start. Over 1 million Fusion APUs has shipped to OEMs worldwide.
During CES 2011 it was hard not to see any AMD’s partners boasting about Fusion. With few products in retail yet it is no proof of any sale success, but with such a large interest from OEMs like MSI, Samsung, ASUS, Lenovo, Dell, HP and Lenovo – to mention a few – it’s not just AMD that believes in the new mobile Fusion circuits.
ASUS E35MI-I Deluxe takes Brazos to Mini-ITX
AMD launched its Brazos platform on January 6th and both notebooks and desktops are coming sporting the new energy efficient Zacate and Ontario APUs. The processor circuits has one or two Bobcat CPU cores and operate at 1 GHz to 1.6 GHz. Both APUs have a built-in graphics processor with DirectX 11 and HD video support.
| APU | CPU cores | CPU clock | GPU | GPU cores | GPU clock | TDP |
| AMD E-350 | 2 | 1.6GHz | Radeon HD 6310 | 80 | 500MHz | 18W |
| AMD E-240 | 1 | 1.5GHz | Radeon HD 6310 | 80 | 500MHz | 18W |
| AMD C-50 | 2 | 1.0GHz | Radeon HD 6250 | 80 | 280MHz | 9W |
| AMD C-30 | 1 | 1.2GHz | Radeon HD 6250 | 80 | 280MHz | 9W |
With a broad support from partners and OEMs AMD has every chance of succeeding with its Fusion APU platform. How the sales goes we will notice when more Brazos products are available in stores.
