Date: 30/05/2012

AMD's A-Series APU awarded 2012 Best Choice of COMPUTEX TAIPEI award

AMD has announced its AMD A-Series APUs (Accelerated Processing Units) won the 2012 Best Choice of COMPUTEX TAIPEI award. The award is given by the Taipei Computer Association.

The second generation AMD A-Series APU combines the company's latest multi-core x86 CPU core architecture and AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series graphics. AMD claims that this APU provides an increase in performance of up to 29 percent on productivity applications (as compared with the first generation AMD A-Series APUs), increase of graphics performance up to 56 percent, and deliver up to 12 hours of battery life.

Reviews were conducted by a panel of esteemed government officials, academics, research analysts, editors-in-chief of key media outlets and industry experts to select winning products based on design and cutting-edge technology in nine product categories.

"We are honored to receive this prestigious award from the Taipei Computer Association for the second consecutive year," said Chris Cloran, corporate vice president, AMD Client Products. "The overwhelming market reception and industry accolades for the AMD A-Series APUs demonstrate that AMD is uniquely meeting the needs of our customers and a new generation of PC buyers."

AMD and other award recipients' products will be displayed at the Best Choice Award Pavilion by Taipei Computer Association at the upcoming 2012 Computex exhibition.