AMD A-Series Technology Overview

The AMD A-Series mobile processor is an upcoming product in the successful AMD Accelerated Processing Unit (APU) line. Following the lead of the AMD E- and C-Series APUs, the A-Series introduces single chip CPU and discrete-class graphics capabilities to the mainstream and performance markets. The A-Series APU will further distinguish AMD as a leader in balanced platform computing with superior productivity and visual performance, all while enabling all day battery life of 8 – 10 hours, as measured with the Windows Idle test.

The A-Series mobile APU is available in a number of configurations in 35W and 45W thermal design power (TDP) designs, with dual or quad x86 32nm “Stars” cores and three levels of DirectX® 11-capable discrete-class graphics, video and compute performance. The A-Series introduces Turbo Core to the APU, allowing x86 and Radeon™ cores to dynamically enter Turbo mode and provide increased performance in lightly threaded usage scenarios to help maximize performance while staying within thermal limits. Memory is supported at up to DDR3-1600 speeds in dual-channel mode.

Each APU supports single or dual-independent high resolution displays and provides exceptional multi-media capability with third generation Unified Video Decoder (UVD3) hardware decode support for H.264, VC-1, MPEG2, WMV, DivX, MVC and Adobe® Flash. Paired with the A60M or A70M AMD Fusion Controller Hub with support for advanced I/O, the AMD A-Series APU feature set enables a fully capable platform.