Zol.com.cn is showing some pictures of AMD's new socket FM1. FM1 looks to be the final platform for AMD's upcoming "Llano" A-Series accelerated processing units (APUs), in the desktop and notebook ...

Despite of introduction of new "A-Series" and other "-Series" families, the company continued to use "Athlon II" and "Sempron" names for "Llano" products, that didn't have on-chip GPU. The first ...

All we seem to be seeing lately is motherboards and processors at eTeknix. We seem to go through stages of seeing mass amounts of the same hardware. Early this year and around Christmas saw us looking ...

There's a lot riding on AMD's CPU+GPU Fusion part (now known as an APU in official AMD parlance), but new information suggests that when Llano does launch, it'll do so in a new socket. The new form ...

There has been a fair amount of speculation concerning AMD's upcoming Llano APUs, over the past few weeks. Morsels of information concerning specifications and expectations for a launch during ...

Two slides have surfaced which it is claimed detail the company's timeline for the release of upcoming CPUs and APUs (Accelerated Processing Unit, CPU/GPU hybrids). Origin of the slides is the German ...

AMD's FM1 socket was caught up close a few weeks ago, but today, it's an AMD FM1 desktop test board that has been captured on camera. Reports suggest that it's AMD's A75 FCH at the heart of the system ...

According to a report by Fudzilla, socket AM3's days are numbered. The year and a half old desktop platform will supposedly be replaced by a new socket called FM1 by the time early 2011 rolls around.

As excited as we are for the new Trinity APUs, we can't help but be disappointed that they require a new socket that isn't backwards compatible – unlike what we have seen with the AM2/AM2+ and AM3.