Although Llano is targeted solely at the mainstream, it is home to a
number of firsts for AMD. This is AMD's first chip built on a 32nm SOI
process at GlobalFoundries, it is AMD's first microprocessor to feature
more than a billion transistors, and as you'll soon see it's the first
platform with integrated graphics that's actually worth a damn.
AMD is building two distinct versions of Llano, although only one will
be available at launch. There's the quad-core, or big Llano, with four
32nm CPU cores and a 400 core GPU. This chip weighs in at 1.45 billion
transistors, nearly 50% more than Sandy Bridge. Around half of the chip
is dedicated to the GPU however, so those are tightly packed transistors
resulting in a die size that's only 5% larger than Sandy Bridge.
Read the full review over at AnandTech
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