APUs
Launched earlier this year, AMD’s Ryzen 4000 “Renoir” APUs brought several new features and technologies to the table for AMD. Along with numerous changes to improve the APU’s power efficiency and reduce overall idle power usage, AMD also added an interesting TDP management feature that they call SmartShift. Designed for use in systems containing both an AMD APU and an AMD discrete GPU, SmartShift allows for the TDP budgets of the two processors to be shared and dynamically reallocated, depending on the needs of the workload. As SmartShift is a platform-level feature that relies upon several aspects of a system, from processor choice to the layout of the cooling system, it is a feature that OEMs have to specifically plan for and build into their...
AMD Announces 6th Generation A-Series APU Branding - Carrizo Due This Quarter
Along with AMD’s roadmap announcements today at financial analyst day, AMD has also offered a brief update on the state of Carrizo, the company’s forthcoming next-generation mobile APU. Due...
24 by Ryan Smith on 5/6/2015
HSA Foundation Launches ‘HSA 1.0 Final’ – Architecture, Programmers Reference and Runtime Specifications
Heterogeneous compute has been on the tip of the tongue for many involved in integrating compute platforms, and despite talk and demos regarding hardware conforming to HSA provisional specifications...
27 by Ian Cutress on 3/16/2015
AMD at ISSCC 2015: Carrizo and Excavator Details
AMD is using the International Solid-State Circuits Conference this week to present a paper and announce some interesting developments regarding the next iteration of the Bulldozer architecture, codenamed ‘Excavator’...
82 by Ian Cutress on 2/23/2015
Star Swarm, DirectX 12 AMD APU Performance Preview
After several requests and a week’s break from our initial DirectX 12 article, we’re back again with an investigation into Star Swarm DirectX 12 performance scaling on AMD APUs...
152 by Ryan Smith & Ian Cutress on 2/13/2015
AMD’s Carrizo not on the Desktop? Depends What You Define as Desktop
We reported on AMD’s next iteration of their Bulldozer architecture, code named Excavator, during the press release regarding their next processor line up called Carrizo. At the time, the...
34 by Ian Cutress on 1/13/2015
AMD Executive Shakeup: Byrne, LaForce, and Naik Leave AMD
Word comes via email and an 8-K filing from AMD this afternoon that AMD’s executive lineup is undergoing a significant shakeup today. All told, 3 AMD executives are leaving...
43 by Ryan Smith on 1/12/2015_carousel.jpg)
AMD Demonstrates Working Carrizo Laptop Prototype
In our visit with AMD we got to see something I wasn’t really expecting: a functioning Carrizo laptop. (Note that AMD wouldn't let us take pictures, but they did...
61 by Jarred Walton on 1/8/2015
AMD Announces Carrizo and Carrizo-L, Next Gen APUs for H1 2015
Today AMD is announcing the long anticipated upgrade to Kaveri, codenamed Carrizo. Carrizo is the natural successor to Kaveri, featuring x86 ‘Excavator’ cores alongside a Radeon-class GPU and promising...
94 by Ian Cutress on 11/20/2014
AMD APU Price Cuts and Bundles, October 2014
AMD officially announced price cuts on their current APU product stack yesterday, which means the cost of a "mainstream" AMD system is now $20-$30 lower than before. Here's the...
24 by Jarred Walton on 10/22/2014
AMD Appoints Dr. Lisa Su as President & CEO, Rory Read Steps Down
As part of AMD’s broader restructuring efforts, back in June the company announced a business reorganization that would see the company organized into two major groups, the Computing and...
38 by Ryan Smith on 10/8/2014
AMD’s Power Pack: 6 APUs in a Box for System Builders
It went relatively under the radar during the past two weeks of intensive launches, but AMD is launching a new campaign specifically for system builders dubbed the AMD Power...
19 by Ian Cutress on 9/15/2014
State of the Part: CPUs
Short Introduction to CPUs and Terminology There are many elements that go into any modern computer: the CPU/APU, motherboard, memory, (optional) GPU, storage, case, and power supply. While some items...
69 by Jarred Walton on 8/5/2014
AMD Officially Launches 65W/45W Kaveri APUs: The A10-7800, A8-7600 and A6-7400K
Back in January when AMD launched their first Kaveri APUs, we tested the A10-7850K and the A8-7600, with the former being at the top of the product stack featuring...
7 by Ian Cutress on 7/31/2014
AMD A10-7800 Review: Testing the A10 65W Kaveri
Kaveri was launched as a processor line, on desktop, back in January. At the time we were given information on three of the APUs, the A10-7850K, A10-7700K and A8-7600...
147 by Ian Cutress on 7/31/2014
AMD Kaveri Laptops Sighted
While AMD's Kaveri APUs initially launched on the desktop at the beginning of the year, for many the APUs looked like a better fit for laptops and notebooks. In...
42 by Jarred Walton on 7/28/2014
AMD Reorganizes Business Units; Names Dr. Lisa Su as COO
In a move that will mark a mild shake up in how AMD operates, AMD has announced that they will be undergoing a company reorganization next month. Come July...
51 by Ryan Smith on 6/13/2014
AMD Lists New Kaveri Desktop Processors
We are now six months down the line from the AMD Kaveri launch, and the only two Kaveri processors available on Newegg today are the A10-7850K at $170 and...
26 by Ian Cutress on 6/10/2014
AMD Launches Mobile Kaveri APUs
A couple weeks back, AMD briefed us on their upcoming mobile Kaveri APUs. We've known for a while that mobile Kaveri was coming, and after five months the wait...
125 by Jarred Walton on 6/4/2014
AMD Publishes Mobile Kaveri Specifications
In an unexpected (and likely erroneous) move, AMD has published the specifications for their forthcoming mobile Kaveri APUs on their website this morning (scroll down and click on Model...
36 by Ryan Smith on 5/26/2014
AMD Q1 2014 Quarterly Earnings Analysis
AMD hosted their quarterly earnings conference call this afternoon to announce their financial results for the quarter ending March 2014. While they still reported a GAAP loss of $20...
37 by Brett Howse on 4/17/2014
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