Thursday, May 26, 2011

MSI building a Fusion tablet. June 1st 2011 launch date?

Dirk Meyer, AMD's former CEO often spoke about his lack of faith in believing that netbooks and tablets have a strong future. With his coup de grace departure in January 2011, AMD opened up to new technologies and now MSI is coming to the marketwith a $599 tablet powered by AMD's Fusion APU.

On CeBIT 2011, MSI released official details on WindPad 110W, a 10.1" tablet powered by AMD Fusion C-50 APU, combined with 2GB of DDR3 memory and a 32GB SSD. Tablet also comes with a good expansion list; an SD slot for up to 128GB of additional storage (SDHC Compliant slot), USB 2.0, mini-HDMI 1.3a as well as wireless connections - 802.11n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 3.0.
Do note that some websites incorrectly listed the processor as Fusion E-350,  i.e. an 18 Watt TDP "Zacate" silicon - 1.6GHz Dual-core Bobcat with Radeon HD  6310. However, according to MSI the WindPad 110W tablet is using a 9 Watt  Ontario silicon - 1GHz dual-core Bobcat with Radeon HD 6250. Both CPU and GPU  cores are identical in hardware capabilities and die size, the only difference  being the clocks and of course, power consumption.


Continue reading via BSN

No comments:

Post a Comment