AMD Launches Triple-Core A6-3500 APU Running 2.4GHz For $95

AMD today announced availability of the AMD A-Series Accelerated Processing Unit (APU) A6-3500 desktop processor. This processor joins the AMD A8-3850 and the A6-3650 for the AMD Socket FM1 platform, but is different from the other two. For example the AMD A6-3500 isn’t a quad-core processor. It appears AMD is bring the triple-core processor back! The A6-3500 has three x86 CPU cores with 320 Radeon cores. This is different than the other APU offerings, so just a haads up! With a suggested retail price of $95.00 (U.S), the AMD A6-3500 APU operates at 2.1GHz and 2.4GHz with Turbo Boost (CPU) and 444MHz (GPU) with 320 Radeon Cores, 3MB of L2 cache and a TDP of 65W. AMD has shipped more than 12 million APUs since they came to market last year.