Now from A4, A6 to A8 the Llano processor architecture is completely the same. Underneath that heat spreader however AMD did clip out some features that do not just relate to clock frequencies.

An A6-9500 costs around $60. AMD isn't just giving these things away—it's only intended to be used long enough to flash your BIOS, and once you swap it out for one of the new Ryzen APUs, AMD ...

AMD views CPU-and-GPU A-series processors as value propositions. The headline part, A8-3850, benchmarked here, is available for £100 right now.

AMD has previously mentioned to HEXUS that its Llano microarchitecture (that's an A4, A6 or A8 APU, for those who don't know) is far more resilient to changes in the master-bus speed than Intel's ...