By Graham K. Rogers

AMD has announced several new processors that aim to give ultrathin laptops, tablets, and other PCs better value and battery life, Dan Ackerman writes.

The processors were originally named Temash, Kabini, and Richland. They are released as AMD Elite Mobility APU; AMD Mainstream APU; and AMD Elite Performance APU.

These processors are expected to be in devices from Acer, HP, and others and these should appear at about the same time as those computers using Intel's Haswell, although as Ackerman writes, with "welcome options for the budget- and midpriced-PC shopper."

Graham K. Rogers teaches at the Faculty of Engineering, Mahidol University in Thailand where he is also Assistant Dean. He wrote in the Bangkok Post, Database supplement on IT subjects. For the last seven years of Database he wrote a column on Apple and Macs.