According to a report by Fudzilla, socket AM3's days are numbered. The year and a half old desktop platform will supposedly be replaced by a new socket called FM1 by the time early 2011 rolls around.

Chinese hacks have scored a rather rare photo of what appears to be AMD’s upcoming Llano processor and the all-new FM1 socket. Unlike Intel, AMD isn’t in the habit of introducing new sockets every two ...

Two slides have surfaced which it is claimed detail the company's timeline for the release of upcoming CPUs and APUs (Accelerated Processing Unit, CPU/GPU hybrids). Origin of the slides is the German ...

Despite of introduction of new "A-Series" and other "-Series" families, the company continued to use "Athlon II" and "Sempron" names for "Llano" products, that didn't have on-chip GPU. The first ...

And yet another pre-computex leak from Gigabyte, check out the Socket FM1 Micro-ATX Motherboard called Gigabyte A75M-UD2H. Aimed at the desktop PC / HTPC scene this little motherboard might work ...

Below, we have a picture of the AMD accelerated processing units in both FM1 and future FM2 packages, which the latter will be based on the next-generation Trinity APU. In the picture below, "Llano" ...

There has been a fair amount of speculation concerning AMD's upcoming Llano APUs, over the past few weeks. Morsels of information concerning specifications and expectations for a launch during ...

All we seem to be seeing lately is motherboards and processors at eTeknix. We seem to go through stages of seeing mass amounts of the same hardware. Early this year and around Christmas saw us looking ...

Sapphire have been busy designing a new Pure Platinum motherboard for AMD’s A55 chipset. A55 is the chipset which lacks native USB 3.0 and SATA III support, arguably it is therefore the budget FM1 ...

According to a report over at Digitimes, citing sources close to motherboard manufacturers, AMD is cutting prices on some of its Llano FM1 socket A-series APUs. The price cut will include two socket ...

As excited as we are for the new Trinity APUs, we can't help but be disappointed that they require a new socket that isn't backwards compatible – unlike what we have seen with the AM2/AM2+ and AM3.

We're fans of AMD's A-series APUs, as they open up extra options to those looking to build a budget gaming system or capable media PC. However, we're uncertain about how APUs will appeal to people who ...