Trinity APU will be available in the second quarter of next year

Although the progress of the bulldozers is not very smooth, the speed of the Fusion APU is getting faster and faster. The next generation "Trinity" of the mainstream A series is said to be launched in the second quarter of 2012, less than a year after the arrival of the predecessor Llano.

Trinity APU will be used in desktop platform Virgo, mobile platform Comal, manufactured using GlobalFoundries 32nm SOI HKMG process, has four improved Bulldozer Piledriver core, and integrates VLIW4 DX11 graphics core from the Radeon HD 7000 in the South Islands, memory frequency increase To DDR3-2133, the socket interface was changed to Socket FM2 but backward compatible with Socket FM1.

AMD claims that the Trinity APU can increase floating-point performance by 50% with the same power consumption compared to the Llano APU, or reduce power consumption by 50% at the same performance level.

In terms of market positioning, Llano APU is aimed at mainstream PC users, Trinity APU will be more focused on gamers, and GPU graphics will have a greater increase.

In addition to the new APU, AMD will also release a new chipset "A85FX" next year, code-named Hudson D4, featuring clock generators, PCI-E/PCI, CrossFireX dual card crossfire, native USB 3.0, native SATA 6Gbps, and more. The biggest difference from the existing Hudson D3 A75 is that the SATA 6Gbps interface has increased from six to eight, and the crossfire technology will also improve.

The A85FX chipset will be put into production in the first quarter of 2012, but the specific release date is not yet set and will not coincide with the birth of Trinity APU.