
An AMD Trinity-powered ultra-thin laptop - the HP SleekBook.
AMD officially announced today the “Trinity” processors for laptops and desktops. Among them, for the laptop market are important the AMD A6-4455M and A10-4655M for the Ultrabook-like thin machines, as well as the A6-4400M, A8-4500M, and A10-4800M for the standard notebooks.
The new processors, also called the 2nd Generation A-Series Accelerated Processing Units, are based on the last year’s 32-nanometer production process and include the improved “Bulldozer” cores now called “Piledriver” and the Radeon HD 7000 “Northern Islands” graphics. According to AMD, the Trinity provides up to 2x performance-per-watt improvement over the previous Llano chips. The first reviews show a clear lead of the Trinity over Intel’s Ivy Bridge in terms of graphics, but the AMD’s chips lag behind the competition when it comes to the raw CPU performance.

AMD has expanded its Radeon 7000M laptop video card series with three new SKUs which populate higher-end segment.



Besides AMD, Nvidia has announced the new graphics processors for notebooks – the GeForce GT 635M, GT 630M and 610M.
AMD has released the Radeon HD 7400M, 7500M, and 7600M discrete laptop video cards. Although the GPUs belong to the new Radeon HD 7000M series, they use the same architecture and 40-nanometer production technology as the HD 6000 series.
According to leaked specifications, Advanced Micro Devices will release the netbook- and low-end laptop-use AMD C-60 Accelerated Processing Unit which will add Turbo technology to the APU line.
Nvidia has launched new mobile workstation-class Quadro video cards, including the mid-range Quadro 1000M and 2000M, high-end 3000M and 4000M, and the ultra-high-end 5010M.








