AMD Llano Mobile APUs to Launch on June 14

Awaited with great interest by consumers everywhere, AMD's upcoming mobile accelerated processing units based on the company's Llano architecture will be officially launched on June 14, according to a recent report that hit the Web.The report cites sources near AMD and confirms the rumors that the initial mobile Llano APU batch will be comprised of eight models.Five of these feature four processing cores and will use the A8 and A6 designation, while the other three use a dual-core design and will be released in the A4 and E2 series.Just as we reported previously, the most advanced processor of the bunch is the quad-core A8-3530MX which features 4MB of Level 2 cache memory and has a base operating frequency of 1.9GHz.However, this can be dynamically adjusted by the integrated Turbo Core technology depending on the load placed on the chip's cores, and the APU can reach a maximum frequency of 2.6GHz in this mode.The four processing cores are paired with a Radeon HD 6620G integrated graphics unit that features no less than 400 shaders clocked at 444MHz. The TDP of the chip is rated at 45W.The two other A8-series APUs feature similar specifications, but come with lower clock speeds, while the A6 units feature a slightly less powerful Radeon HD 6520 GPU that packs 320 stream processors clocked at 400MHz.The final two A-series APUs are the dual-core A4-3310MX and AM-3300M, which work at 2.1 and 1.9 GHz respectively, feature 2MB of L2 cache and include 240 shaders clocked at 444MHz.Both of these are faster than the E2-3000M Llano APU which has a base frequency of 1.8GHz, 1MB of L2 cache, 160 stream processors and a dual-channel 1333-MHz memory controller.The first notebooks powered by these APUs have already been listed online by eager retailers. The list also includes the 590 Euro HP Pavilion dv6-6110sg which we have previously covered.