subject: Www.batterylaptoppower.com Laptop Battery Life Extended With Amd Fusion Apu [print this page] Battery life for a laptop can sometimes be a make or break situation for someone on the road who is working without an electrical outlet to plug into. Towards addressing this problem, AMD has announced their new Fusion line of chips to answer this need. The Fusion APU chip line is supposed to prolong battery life by running at lower wattage and therefore consuming less gateway laptop battery power. They are reporting two basic types of chips, the E-350 & E-240 running at 18 watts and the C-50 & C-30 running at 9 watts. The C series is to be targeted at netbooks.
The APU term was created by AMD which they have defined as Accelerated Processor Unit. They purchased ATI, the video card company and have taken that technology and bundled it together on the same CPU chip, thus the name Fusion was created. The result of putting both the video and core CPU functionality on the same chip results in far less power being required to run the computers they are in. For laptops, heat is a big concern, so running at a lower wattage will reduce the amount of heat being produced with these new chips.
The major benefactor will be netbooks, which have been promoted as devices which will benefit the most and should see a sony laptop battery life boost of up to 30%. Those are the current advertising claims and once the chips and netbooks are in wide distribution, we should see some real world tests to know the performance gains. If your battery life was 9 hours before, you are going to see 12 hours with this new chip. If that is correct, you can do a complete work day without ever having to plug into an outlet. For road warriors, this is great news.
Intel has also released new CPUs, so the competition is heating up between these two rivals. The announcement by AMD has been followed by a number of companies making announcements about laptops being released. dell laptop battery and hp laptop battery will have laptops with the Fusion CPUs by the end of the month. We can expect to see a number of companies talking about these at the CES show and the inclusion in their product lines. These are single and dual core chips and we should be seeing quad core chips this year as well.
