AMD to Demonstrate Fusion APU codenamed ‘Zacate’ This Week

By Nathan Kirsch

This week in San Francisco, AMD will unveil the first North America public demonstrations of its AMD Fusion Accelerated Processing Unit (APU) codenamed Zacate, a new dual-core, 18-watt TDP processor containing discrete-level graphics capabilities on die and designed to dramatically improve the users PC experience. Targeting value and mainstream notebooks and desktops, Zacate APU-based platforms bring many of the vivid digital computing experiences once reserved for high-end PCs into the opening price points of the mainstream segment.

AMD Fusion APU

What: Demonstrations of the experience consumers can expect to see early in 2011 from a broad range of mainstream notebook and desktop PCs based on the AMD Fusion APU codenamed Zacate, including:

  • Full HD streaming online video, showcasing the versatility of the Zacate APU-based platform to handle the most demanding multimedia tasks
  • Immersive online gaming with high image-quality settings, demonstrating the DirectX 11-compliant Zacate APU-based platform
  • Preview of accelerated Internet browsing, showing how Zacate APU-based platforms support the future of GPU-enabled web browsing today and how these platforms perform side-by-side against currently available AMD- and Intel processor-based notebooks

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