AMD on monday will unveil the first North America public demonstrations of its AMD Fusion Accelerated Processing Unit (APU) codenamed "Zacate," a new dual-core, 18-watt TDP processor containing discrete-level graphics capabilities on die.

The new APU is targeting value and mainstream notebooks and desktops, schedulled to appear on the market early in 2011.

Mainstream notebook and desktop PCs based on the AMD Fusion APU will support multitasking multimedia tasks such as full HD streaming of online video and online DirectX 11 gaming with high image-quality settings. AMD will also preview accelerated Internet browsing, showing how "Zacate" APU-based platforms support the future of GPU-enabled web browsing today and how these platforms perform side-by-side against currently available AMD- and Intel processor-based notebooks.