According to a report by Fudzilla, socket AM3's days are numbered. The year and a half old desktop platform will supposedly be replaced by a new socket called FM1 by the time early 2011 rolls around.

There's a lot riding on AMD's CPU+GPU Fusion part (now known as an APU in official AMD parlance), but new information suggests that when Llano does launch, it'll do so in a new socket. The new form ...

Despite of introduction of new "A-Series" and other "-Series" families, the company continued to use "Athlon II" and "Sempron" names for "Llano" products, that didn't have on-chip GPU. The first ...

Two slides have surfaced which it is claimed detail the company's timeline for the release of upcoming CPUs and APUs (Accelerated Processing Unit, CPU/GPU hybrids). Origin of the slides is the German ...

AMD is currently working on a new launch, a new accelerated processing unit in the FM1 package. The A4-3420 is set to be a value model for all those on a tight budget, or simply those without the need ...

And yet another pre-computex leak from Gigabyte, check out the Socket FM1 Micro-ATX Motherboard called Gigabyte A75M-UD2H. Aimed at the desktop PC / HTPC scene this little motherboard might work ...

ECS has released a series of AMD APU supported Socket FM1 motherboards called the A55 series. The range will have three motherboards, the ECS—A55F-A, A55F-M2 and A55F-M3 which will support the AMD ...

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Sapphire unveiled its PT A8A75 motherboard today which will be part of the “Pure Platinum” series of motherboards. Interestingly enough this board is of the ATX form factor so is looking to provide ...

As excited as we are for the new Trinity APUs, we can't help but be disappointed that they require a new socket that isn't backwards compatible – unlike what we have seen with the AM2/AM2+ and AM3.

Listing of our Socket FM1 content from our Motherboards category for 2011.