Get ready for some bombardment from AMD in the netbook and ultraportable laptops, and nettops market. Previously known to be shipping at Q3 of this year, AMD has surprisingly announced that their new 32nm Llano APU processor has just shipped off to OEM manufacturers. In fact, AMD’s Singapore plant just celebrated the first shipment of the company’s 32nm Llano A-series APUs, complete with discrete-level graphics.

Of course, just because these chips are headed out to OEM partners doesn’t mean that they’ll be gracing the pages of your favorite PC maker tomorrow; Chief Financial Officer and Interim CEO Thomas Seifert notes that AMD is looking forward to seeing Llano-based machines during this quarter, but given that Q2 just got going, we may be waiting awhile still for a month or two.

SOURCE via Computer World