The surprise at AMD’s Computex press conference today was as much what the company did not show as what it did discuss. The Llano processor, the company’s first mainstream APU and its first 32nm processor, was largely a no-show. Instead AMD announced a new line of APUs for tablets, known as the Z Series.

AMD sought to put the best possible spin on the lack of Llano. Company executives said that Llano has been shipping to customers and will be launched at a separate event in mid-June.

To illustrate this, he held up what he said was one of the first Trinity APUs, the processor that will replace Llano in 2012. AMD did confirm that the Llano APUs would be branded the A Series and available in A4, A6 and A8 versions, but these details were already widely known.

Bergman also said that AMD’s high-end Zambezi processor, which is a traditional CPU designed for systems with discrete graphics, was “looking great” (though he offered no details) and added that the Orochi server version was on track for release in the third quarter.


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nice, orochi is on track that "should" mean that bulldozer is on track. ohh trinity!