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Speed Up Internet Explorer 9 (IE9): AMD’s ideal solution

Jamie Pert — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 15:38:18 +0000

Earlier this week we revealed that Microsoft had now launched Internet Explorer 9, some readers were undecided as to whether or not to bother downloading Microsoft’s Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox competitor, however one feature which turned heads was IE9′s hardware acceleration.

We are now hearing that using IE9 on a PC powered by AMD technology will result in better video and graphics performance on the web, this is because IE9′s hardware acceleration can take advantage of the AMD Fusion Family APU and AMD Radeon graphics cards. Not only can we expect better performance but it will not have a negative affect on power consumption, which means laptops and tablets will be able to boast better battery life.

If you are sceptical AMD are offering you the chance to win your own HP Pavillion DM1Z notebook to try it out first yourself, these notebooks use AMD’s new Fusion APUs, if you want a chance to win one of the notebooks head over to www.IE9heartsAPU.com.

You can also head over to AMD’s official blog to find out more about why pairing IE9 with AMD technology is the way forward, in short HD video playback should be smoother, websites should be more responsive, graphics will be clearer and colors should be more vivid, sounds like a win-win to us.

Will you upgrade to an AMD-based solution to get a richer IE9 experience? (The video we have embedded below shows just how great hardware acceleration really is!

AMD Fusion APU Officially Launched: Impressive Tech Specs

Jamie Pert — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 11:53:16 +0000

AMD has officially launched its new Fusion APU series, these chips combine a CPU and GPU into a single die and will be used in devices such as tablets, netbooks and notebooks etc.

The AMD Fusion APU series are said o be capable of DirectX 11 graphics, 1080p HD playback, 2D to 3D conversion, UVD3 video acceleration, also the low power consumption should allow for up to 10 hours of battery life.

You can find out all you need to know about the AMD Fusion APU here, it is thought that we will begin seeing AMD Fusion-based devices at CES 2011, some of which will become available immediately.

AMD has unveiled four Fusion APUs so far, these are the E-240, E-350, C-50 and C-30, the E-Series APUs (Zacate) are intended for mainstream notebooks, small form-factor desktops and All-in-Ones, whilst the C-Series chips (Ontario) are designed for HD netbooks and similar devices, perhaps even tablets. You can see find out a little bit more about these four chips via the image below, alternatively for fully detailed information check out this link.

It will be interesting to see which manufacturers decide to utilize the AMD Fusion platform, with great performance claims the chips undoubtedly seem to fit in with today’s needs of high processing power and low power consumption, I’m sure the potential of this new platform will feature over the next few days at CES.

Do you think the AMD Fusion platform will be a success?