Leaked AMD roadmap shows a chip that’s going into tablets

AMD has been busy with its Bulldozer architecture and Ilano Fusion APU, but that is not the only thing they’re playing with at their labs. A leaked slide deck from within AMD is showing quite a bit of the company’s upcoming roadmap, and while few of it has already been made public in one way or another, there’s one term that’s still hiding in mystery.
The chip that we’re referring to is Desna, a Z-Series APU that’s aimed at the tablet form factor. There have only been a handful that reached sampling and prototyping, and thus we still do not know if these chips are able to go neck-to-neck with those ARM processors in the wild, in terms of power and heat requirements.
Based on these sheets — dated this month, for what it’s worth — the Z-Series chip will offer Flash compatibility, DirectX 11 support and IE9 / HTML5 acceleration, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg, according to AMD.
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