AMD has this week announced the release of their newly updated Accelerated Processing Units (APU) available from today for ultrathin and value notebooks netbooks, all-in-ones and desktop PC’s.

The new AMD APUs updates include the addition of enhanced high definition graphics, together with new enhanced DDR3 1,333 MHz memory to provide performance boosts across the series. Together with am extended battery resting life of 12 hours on a full charge on the C-series APUs, and 10.5 hours on the new E-series. Roughly increasing the performance by four times when compared to previous platforms.

AMD explain via Chris Cloran, vice president and general manager of Client Division, AMD:

"Today’s PC users want stunning HD graphics and accelerated performance with all-day battery life and that’s what AMD Fusion APUs deliver,” - ”With these new APUs, we’re bringing premium features to entry-level products that let users get a richer computing experience.”

The newly updated AMD APUs also now include HDMI 1.4 for output of 3D video content to 3D HDTVs.

Source: Market Watch