I'm quite a fan of the Fusion platform; I've built myself a really nice little HTPC for my room based around the AMD Brazos platform using the wonderful ASUS E35M1-I Deluxe Motherboard. Today we see the next level of Fusion, introduced to us in the form of the Llano platform and the Lynx APU. The Llano platform is what AMD hope will become the mainstream platform to use; based on what we saw from the Brazos platform we have to say that there's a good chance they're heading in the right direction."

As good as Brazos was, it wasn't the most powerful platform; it has its uses in the form of Netbooks and low end Laptops from a portability point of view and from the desktop side of things it's a great platform for the home theater segment. If you wanted something to use every day for work, though, you'd probably find yourself not having quite enough power on tap. That's where the Llano platform steps in; this follows a much more traditional method when it comes to the platform side of things. While the Brazos platform for desktops had the APU embedded into the board already, the Llano platform consists of that typical motherboard and CPU which is now APU, or Accelerated Processing Unit.



Link: Tweaktown