Date: 10/06/2012

E-Series APU from AMD for notebooks and desktop computers

AMD has launched its latest AMD E-Series Accelerated Processing Unit (APU) platform designed for essential notebook and desktop personal computers. The 2012 AMD E-Series APU meets the basic performance needs at accessible price points and enables long battery life.

"In 2011, we showed the industry you could get discrete-level GPU power in a notebook without added power consumption or cost, resulting in the most successful notebook platform in AMD's history," said Chris Cloran, corporate vice president and general manager, AMD Client Business Unit. "Today we raise the bar even higher with our latest APU offering. Our 2012 AMD E-Series APU gives consumers a visually superior choice for everyday performance with the latest graphics technology and nearly three hours more battery life than the competition."

Formerly codenamed "Brazos 2.0," the 2012 AMD E-Series APU is the feature-rich update to the AMD notebook processor platform.

Features and benefits of the new platform:
1. Improved mobility - Systems based on this APU can deliver up to 11 hours of resting battery life and up to a 90 minute competitive advantage in Web browsing and online flash gaming
2. AMD Steady Video technology - Has plug-in support for all major Web browsers along with Windows Media Player and the open source VLC player, provides enhanced video experience
3. Better gaming experience - The APU platform offers built-in AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series graphics with DirectX 11 and DirectCompute for notebooks
4. AMD Quick Stream technology - Provides superior online experience which prioritizes Internet bandwidth towards video stream buffering or online gaming
5. Two SuperSpeed USB 3.0 ports - Provides 10x faster data transfer speeds (5Gbps) with external hard drives
6. 3D video and gaming - Projected to external 3D displays

AMD E-Series Ultrathin Notebook APUs:

APU Model AMD Radeon Brand TDP CPU Cores CPU Clock AMD Radeon Cores GPU Clock (Max/Base) L2 Cache Max DDR3
E2-1800 HD 7340 18W 2 1.7GHz 80 680MHz/523MHz 1MB DDR3-1333DDR3L-1333DDR3U-1066
E1-1200 HD 7310 18W 2 1.4GHz 80 500MHz 1MB DDR3-1333DDR3L-1333DDR3U-106

AMD has collaborated with Microsoft to optimize the new AMD E-Series APUs for key features in Microsoft Windows 8 to help improve the overall experience. Optimizations for HTML5 and full support for the new Metro user interface will help accelerate new Metro-based apps developed for Microsoft's newest operating system.