Ivy Bridge's New Rival

Once busy with the development, AMD now has the second-generation processorpriority to low power consumption and integrated graphics are powered.

Processor A-Series APU (accelerated processing unit, a combination of CPU andgraphics processor) coded name "Trinity" is predicted to be the opponent for theprocessor series "Ivy Bridge" from Intel, AMD's main rival in the microprocessor industry.

Like the Ivy Bridge, Trinity has up to four-core processor and comes with integrated graphics processing unit. Trinity graphics unit using Northern Islands architecture is alsoimplemented on the graphics card Radeon HD 6000 series from AMD.

Thanks to the integrated graphics processors, AMD claims that the Trinity is able to provide the experience of playing a better game on the user.

"Trinity can play 1080p HD video, and run the game at 30 frames per second rate," saidSasa Markinkovic, head of marketing for AMD desktop products and software, as quoted from Cnet.

Rate of 30 frames per second is a minimum standard for the game to run smoothly. "IvyBridge does give a progress in terms of graphics though, but its performance is still notenough for HD gaming."

The processor core architecture adopts Trinity "Piledriver" who use power saving technology called "resonant clock mesh technology". This technology allows Trinity to recycle some of the electrical energy used during operation.

The result, power consumption can be reduced to Trinity 17 watts, or only half the raterecorded its predecessor, Llano. Due to power saving, battery laptop using even thisprocessor is claimed to last up to 12 hours.

The plan, computer products that use these processors will go on sale in June.