From Tom's Hardware...
Llano Now Shipping (Not For Sale)
AMD has some interesting products in the pipeline, however. On April 6th it announced that new quad-core Llano CPUs are being shipped out to OEM system providers. This means we should see Llano available for purchase sometime this quarter, by the end of June.
For those of you unfamiliar with what Llano will bring to the table, it's AMD's Fusion-based product aimed at the notebook and desktop markets, combining both CPU and graphics hardware on the same 32 nm die. While the Brazos platform brought Fusion to low-power nettops and netbooks, Llano is far more powerful. It sports Phenom II-class dual- and quad-core processors (sans L3 cache), combined with capable graphics hardware. Initial speculation suggests that the most powerful of these integrated GPUs may be comparable to a Radeon HD 6570.
The impact that Llano will have on the market is difficult to predict. Sandy Bridge should have little trouble outpacing AMD's aging Stars architecture when it comes to CPU processing power. But AMD's integrated GPU promises to be worlds ahead of HD Graphics 3000 (and even more so versus HD Graphics 2000). Enthusiasts will continue favoring Intel's processors paired up to discrete graphics cards. But Llano may offer something we've never seen before: a budget-oriented solution capable of handling a taxing graphics load.
