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Originally Posted by acperience7

I don't see a connection for the Northbridge in the picture, just the Southbridge. Does this new chip eliminate it?

Yes. All components of the NB (PCI-E switch, Memory controller, Hypertransport, A-Link) are all in the APU. The NB is completely eliminated. All that remains is an A-Link (PCI-E 2.0 x4 link) between the APU and the southbridge.

Originally Posted by panchoman

i hope these will socketed, so we can swap out the shrikes and upgrade our lappys

Too bad you can't upgrade the current Turion lappies with these. These feature a DDR3 memory controller, and major architectural differences over the current Turion Ultra.