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AMD has announced that the company has sold more than one million Fusion APUs for entry-level notebooks and netbooks. Not only is their Fusion line doing strong, the company is now boasting over 35 million units sold of their Direct X 11-class processing units.

The commercial adoption of the company’s APUs is not surprising, low-power solutions are drawing a lot of interest lately and AMD seems to be leading the calvary since it’s ship date of early November.

During the company’s 4th quarter conference call [Press Release] Thomas Seifert, interim chief executive officer of AMD, stated that momentum for the APUs is growing strong. “Industry momentum for Fusion is strong and growing. OEM adoption of Brazos is excellent. We shipped more than 1 million Brazos platforms in its debut quarter to world class OEMs including Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo, MSI, Samsung, Sony and Toshiba.”

With more and more focus going to lightweight powerful notebooks, we can expect the industry adoption of AMD’s APUs grow significantly over 2011.

At this time of year we often struggle to look at any new gadget free of a gift idea approach. So happens with these. MSI has released two new gaming graphic cards just ahead of Christmas, so naturally you might seize one of those if there is a gaming enthusiast among your friends and relatives. Specs and features follow.

MSI R6970 and R6950 are based on respectively named AMD Radeon HD 6000 series Cayman graphic cores which are built on 40 nm fabrication process. This, of course, is fine, but many people out there are holding it for the next-gen GPUs from ATI and NVIDIA. We expect them to be out some time next year, so if you are actually buying for a gamer, make sure you know what you are doing or you’ll spend a lot of money and will get no appreciation instead.

MSI R6970-2PM2D2GD5 specifications:

Core clock: 880 MHz
Fabrication process: 40 nm
Memory clock: 5500 MHz
Memory capacity: 2 GB GDDR5
Bus width: 256 bits
Interfaces: PCI Express ×16 2.1, HDMI 1.4a, Mini DisplayPort ×2, DVI-I, DVI-D, CrossFire
Features: DirectX 11, AMD Eyefinity, AMD Advanced Parallel Processing, AMD CrossFire
Dimensions: 275mm × 110mm × 38mm

MSI R6950-2PM2D2GD5 specifications:

Core clock: 800 MHz
Fabrication process: 40 nm
Memory clock: 5000 MHz
Memory capacity: 2 GB GDDR5
Bus width: 256 bits
Interfaces: PCI Express ×16 2.1, HDMI 1.4a, Mini DisplayPort ×2, DVI-I, DVI-D, CrossFire
Features: DirectX 11, AMD Eyefinity, AMD Advanced Parallel Processing, AMD CrossFire
Dimensions: 275mm × 110mm × 38mm

MSI are launching a new laptop computer in the X-Slim range called the MSI X350. The X350 has a 13.4 inch screen that has a 1,366 x 768 resolution and is backlit by LED. The X250 weighs 3.31 pounds.

The laptop is described as being ultra-thin and comes with 2GB of DDR2 memory, has a chiclet style keyboard and a 1.3 megapixel camera. Powering the X350 laptop is an Intel CULV Core 2 Duo Processor.

The laptop has a gigabit Ethernet port for connectivity along with WiFi and optional Bluetooth. On the outer edges USB 2.0 ports can be found along with an SD/MMC memory card reader and audio in and out jacks.

The MSI X350 runs the Intel GMA 4500MHD graphics chipset and also comes pre-installed with Windows 7 Home Premium edition. For power you get the option of either a 4 cell or 8 cell battery that can provide up to 9 hours of usage between charges.

No details on pricing or availability are known just yet although we’d expect to see details over at CES at the latest.

Via: TFTS

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