Asus E35M1-M Pro

Asus E35M1-M Pro review

The wait is over. AMD's first Fusion APU (Accelerated Processing Unit), the AMD E-350, has finally arrived courtesy of the Asus E35M1-M PRO motherboard. Exciting times, but this isn't quite the chip we were expecting.Wind back the clock a couple of years and we thought a processor based on AMD's exotic new Bulldozer core would be the first CPU-GPU Fusion model out of AMD's gate.Instead, the AMD E-350 is an ultra low-power chip and the Asus E35M1-M Pro is a compact Micro-ATX board designed for low-profile systems.That said, the AMD E-350 APU is certainly all new. Prior to its arrival, all of AMD's PC processors were effectively derivatives of a single architecture. In terms of power consumption, the range was large kicking off at 9W and extending all the way to 140W. Likewise, there are all kinds of configurations available up to and including six-core processors.But the future of computing is all about low power and small form factors including everything from smartphones and tablets to netbooks and embedded devices. AMD needs something that can at least form the basis of the quest for the fabled 1W CPU.