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Lenovo X120e reviewed :)
It's a good thing we believe in second chances, eh? The X120e is without a doubt an improvement over the X100e in terms of battery life, thermals, and performance, and considering we've always loved its classic looking chassis and amazingly comfortable keyboard, we're obviously pretty taken with the affordable little laptop. But the real question: do we like it better than HP's dm1z, which is priced around $450? That's a tough one, but when it comes to value, there's no doubt that HP's dm1z is the better choice – it has virtually the same specs as the ThinkPad (okay, one less gig of RAM and Windows 7 Home Premium), but comparable performance and battery life for $100 less. We assume for that reason alone many will snatch up the HP, however, if you're looking for something a bit more professional looking combined with some great ergonomics, the X120e may just be worth the extra cash.
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Lenovo ThinkPad X120e review -- Engadget
 
AMD Brazos refresh will bring Turbo Core onboard.
Advanced Micro Devices plans to refresh the lineup of its E-series inexpensive accelerated processing units (APUs) for desktops in the third quarter of this calendar year. Performance boost will hardly be tangible and will include a slight increase in clock-speed and addition of AMD Turbo Core dynamic acceleration technology.

In Q3 2011 the company will launch E-450 and E-300 code-named Zacate accelerated processing units with two Bobcat cores, 80 stream processors, video decoding engine, 18W thermal design power (TDP) and so on, X-bit labs has learnt. The dual-core E-300 APU will substitute single-core E-240 chip, whereas the dual-core E450 will complement the existing E-350 with higher performance amid similar power consumption and FT1 form-factor.

The clock-speeds of the second breed of E-series desktop APUs will remain low - in the range between 1.30GHz and 1.65GHz - but thanks to Turbo Core dynamic acceleration technology the new chips promise to offer noticeable speed improvement compared to the first models of Zacate APUs. It remains to be seen whether AMD will also refresh the Ontario APUs for netbooks as well.
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Source : AMD to Refresh E-Series APUs Lineup in the Third Quarter - X-bit labs
 
Some bulldozer news catching up :)
The initial family of AMD's FX-series microprocessors based on Bulldozer micro-architecture will include four models with eight, six or four cores and 95W or 125W thermal design power (TDP).

The first breed of AMD FX8000, FX6000 and FX4000 currently known under Zambezi code-name will completely support all the advantages that the Bulldozer micro-architecture is supposed to bring, including new Flex FP floating point processing unit. The new chips in maximum eight-core configurations are projected - by AMD's internal documents - to offer roughly 50% performance improvement over Phenom II-series microprocessors in multimedia applications.
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Source : Four AMD Bulldozer Chips Incoming: Details Revealed - X-bit labs

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AMD Aims to Fight Core i7 “Sandy Bridge†with Bulldozer.


Advanced Micro Devices at present is not able to compete in terms of pure performance against Intel Corp.’s Core i7-series “Sandy Bridge†microprocessors, according to benchmark results, but with its next-generation Bulldozer-based chips the company fully aims to fight.

With its FX-series AMD Zambezi desktop processors the Sunnyvale, California-based company plans to fully compete against Intel Core i-family of high-performance central processing units. A document from AMD seen by X-bit labs claims that AMD FX-series central processing unit (CPUs) powered by the Bulldozer micro-architecture will be fully able to rival Core i7 2600-series chips.
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Source : AMD Aims to Fight Core i7

Ohh and in the end check out some cool bulldozer retail box designs







 
AMD Bulldozer FX Four to Eight-Core CPUs Detailed

Source: AMD Bulldozer FX Four to Eight-Core CPUs Detailed - Softpedia

AMD may not have chips capable of challenging Intel's Sandy bridge units right now, but it is only a matter of time before the Bulldozer processors come out for real, four of which were detailed a short while ago.

Several weeks ago, Intel and its partners were forced to halt sales of all Sandy Bridge products because the 6-Series Cougar Point chipset was found to be plagued by a flaw which caused SATA 3.0 Gbps ports to degrade over time.

This left a sort of vacuum on the market for mainstream and high-end motherboards and notebooks, vacuum which, ironically, AMD was unable to fill.

This was because the Fusion APUs already available on the market were only low-end ones, for netbooks and ultraportables.

Now, finally, some exact info has made its way to the web on four of the FX Bulldozer chips, otherwise known as Zambezi.

In addition to a quad-core (FX-4110) and a six-core (FX-6110) model, there will be two eight-core ones, known as FX-8130P and FX-8110.

Unlike the ones mentioned above, they are not based on the Fusion architecture, so they lack built-in graphics.

What they do possess, however, is an integrated DDR3-1866 controller, an unlocked multiplier for overclocking and support for the Turbo Core dynamic overclocking technology.

Additionally, the four-core unit has 4 MB of L2 cache, while the six and 8-core ones have 6 MB and 8 MB, respectively. Finally, their TDP is of 95W, except that of the FX-8130P, which is rated at 125W.

Some may be interested in knowing that the Globalfoundries 32nm process technology will be used in the chips' creation.

All four central processing units should make it to market sometime during the second quarter of the ongoing year (2011), probably in June. They will be compatible with AM3+ sockets and should have clocked of around 3 GHz or more
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Re: AMD Bulldozer FX Four to Eight-Core CPUs Detailed

It would be great if there are some real world gaming benchmarks against new gen i series proccys. The six and eight core proccies might not be effective for gaming, and the Bullodzer 4core vs i5 is what gamers should be looking at.. :clap:
 
Totally agree wid muzux... Fusion CPUs and Bulldozer CPUs are way too different... So there shud b two discussion thread... :)
 
AMD A-Series Accelerated Processing Units Due in 2011

Model A8- 3560P A8- 3550P A8- 3560 A8- 3550 A6- 3460P A6- 3450P A6- 3460 A6- 3450 A4- 3360 A4- 3350 E2- 3250
Cores Husky Husky Husky Husky Husky Husky Husky Husky Husky Husky Husky
Core Count 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 2 2 2
Stream Core Count 400 400 400 400 320 320 320 320 160 160 160
Clock-Speed TBD TBD TBD TBD TBD TBD TBD TBD TBD TBD TBD
GPU Clock-Speed TBD 594 MHz TBD 594 MHz TBD 443 MHz TBD 443 TBD 594 MHz 443 MHz
Radeon Brand HD 6550 HD 6550 HD 6550 HD 6550 HD 6530 HD 6530 HD 6530 HD 6530 HD 6410 HD 6410 HD 6370
Cache 4MB 4MB 4MB 4MB 4MB 4MB 4MB 4MB 2MB 2MB 1MB
Memory DDR3, 1866 MHz DDR3, 1866 MHz DDR3, 1866 MHz DDR3, 1866 MHz DDR3, 1866 MHz DDR3, 1866 MHz DDR3, 1866 MHz DDR3, 1866 MHz DDR3, 1866 MHz DDR3, 1866 MHz DDR3, 1600 MHz
Process Technology 32nm 32nm 32nm 32nm 32nm 32nm 32nm 32nm 32nm 32nm 32nm
TDP 100W 100W 65W 65W 100W 100W 65W 65W 65W 65W 65W
Turbo Core TBD TBD TBD TBD TBD TBD TBD TBD TBD TBD TBD
Packaging FM1 FM1 FM1 FM1 FM1 FM1 FM1 FM1 FM1 FM1 FM1
Launch Q4 2011 Q3 2011 Q4 2011 Q3 2011 Q4 2011 Q3 2011 Q4 2011 Q3 2011 Q4 2011 Q3 2011 Q3 2011

Initial Desktop AMD "Llano" Lineup Will Include Five APUs - Documents - X-bit labs
 
AMD's Llano Motherboard Chipsets Get USB 3.0 Certification

Source: AMD's Llano Motherboard Chipsets Get USB 3.0 Certification - Softpedia

USB-IF has just issued USB 3.0 certification for two of AMD's upcoming Hudson chipset that will be used together with the company's Llano processors. This means that the Sunnyvale-based outfit is one step closer to the release of its second-generation Fusion platforms.

The certification wasn't followed by a press release from any of the two organizations, but SemiAccurate has managed to spot these chips in USB-IF's list of supported products.

This makes AMD the first company to get certification for a chipset level implementation of USB 3.0.

Intel is also expected to go this route later this year as the upcoming Panther Point chipset, that is going to be launched together with the company's Ivy Bridge processors, will also feature native USB 3.0 support.

The two chipsets in question are the A70M FCH (also known as Hudson-M3) and the A75 FCH (also known as Hudson-D3). The first one will be used in mobile computing systems, such as notebooks, and the latter is targeting desktop systems.

According to SemiAccurate, both these chips feature four USB 3.0 ports and were co-developed with Renesas

Outside of USB 3.0 support, the Hudson-M3 and Hudson-D3 chipsets also get six 6Gbps SATA ports, no less than ten USB 2.0 ports, RAID 0 and 1 support, four PCI Express Gen 2 lanes and a Gigabit Ethernet port.

In addition, the Hudson-D3 can pack up to three regular PCI slots and also gain RAID 10 support.

Together with these chipsets, AMD will also release its second-generation Fusion architecture CPUs, code named Llano, that are built using tweaked Stars cores (found in Phenom II and Athlon II chips) paired together with a DirectX 11 compatible on-die GPU.

From what we know until now, the official launch will include five desktop processors, four quad-core and one dual-core, and the chips will be built using the 32nm manufacturing process.

Furthermore, all of them will get an integrated dual-channel DDR3-1866 memory controller, an integrated PCI Express 2.0 controller and utilize the FM1 socket, while some CPUs will also support AMD's Turbo Core technology.

Commercial shipment of the A-series “Llano” chips is expected to start on July 20th, 2011.
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