The APUs mentioned are manufactured on TSMC's 40nm process technology, and feature 512kB of L2 cache per core, a single-channel DDR3-1066 memory controller, an Evergreen family DirectX 11 graphics core, and have a TDP of 18W (Zacate) or 9W (Ontario).
The first two Zacate chips revealed are known as E-350 (1.6 GHz) and C-50 (1.0 GHz), while the Ontario family includes the E-240 (1.5 GHz) and C-30 (1.2 GHz). The E-series APUs include 80 DX11 'nanocores' (aka Radeon HD 6310 Graphics) clocked at 500 MHz, whereas the C-series have to settle for 80 GPU cores @ 280 MHz (Radeon HD 6250 Graphics). Performance numbers were not allowed by AMD but reports have the APUs beating Intel's Atom processors hands down so prepare for some interesting low-cost AMD-based systems next year.
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