Tuesday, August 27th 2013
AMD Updates Product Roadmap for 2014-2015
AMD reportedly updated its consumer products roadmap for 2014 thru 2015 to account for changes in the industry. The company is expected to unveil its next-generation "Volcanic Islands" GPU family by late-September, 2013. In the first quarter of 2014, the company is expected to unveil its 4th generation entry-level APUs, codenamed "Kabini." Built in ST3 socket for notebooks, and FS1B for desktops, this product family will include dual- and quad-core parts, with TDPs under 25W. Among the quad-core parts are the A4-5350 and A4-5150, and among the dual-core ones is the E1-2650.
"Kabini" will enter mass-production in February 2014, and will be formally announced in the following month. Kabini's early-2014 launch, delayed from late-2013, will have a cascading effect on its successor's launch. "Beema," its successor, will now launch in either late-2014, or early-2015. "Beema" will be based on the same socket types as "Kabini," but will incorporate more HSA technologies.
In 2014 AMD's AM3 socket will retire after a 5-year run at the markets, as would its first APU socket, FM1. By the end of 2013, APUs would amount for 70 percent of AMD processors, while CPUs (chips devoid of on-die graphics), will amount for 30 percent. In 2015, AMD plans to launch "Carrizo," an APU that uses CPU cores based on AMD's next-generation "Excavator" micro-architecture. While Intel "tick-tocks" its product development cycle on two factors, CPU micro-architecture and silicon-fab process; AMD's own "tick-tock" could follow succeeding CPU and GPU micro-architectures.
Source:
DigiTimes
"Kabini" will enter mass-production in February 2014, and will be formally announced in the following month. Kabini's early-2014 launch, delayed from late-2013, will have a cascading effect on its successor's launch. "Beema," its successor, will now launch in either late-2014, or early-2015. "Beema" will be based on the same socket types as "Kabini," but will incorporate more HSA technologies.
In 2014 AMD's AM3 socket will retire after a 5-year run at the markets, as would its first APU socket, FM1. By the end of 2013, APUs would amount for 70 percent of AMD processors, while CPUs (chips devoid of on-die graphics), will amount for 30 percent. In 2015, AMD plans to launch "Carrizo," an APU that uses CPU cores based on AMD's next-generation "Excavator" micro-architecture. While Intel "tick-tocks" its product development cycle on two factors, CPU micro-architecture and silicon-fab process; AMD's own "tick-tock" could follow succeeding CPU and GPU micro-architectures.
45 Comments on AMD Updates Product Roadmap for 2014-2015
So the new roadmap is just say a Kabini refresh in 2014 february. Nothing new. These are the same Kabini chips but with higher clock.
10/12 core AM3+ 28/22nm Steamroller please.
IMHO Amd wont side step the still lucrative cpu only market, and the fact that servers(more importantly there owners) LIKE cheap drop in upgrades for their multi node supercomputers Imho assures Amd will have something unannounced yet, to release near Q1 2014.
for us enthusiasts well i think there's life yet in AM3+
from a processor design point of view Amd's next server chip needs more performance, less power, and possibly more cores(here we have a likely candidate for a node test (20nm) chip for eg) and faster cache.
It will likely feature ddr3 and ddr4 support too and more of each then previously seen from Amd ,nowww
what are they going to do with the shit ones again:rolleyes::confused:
Monica Chen, Taipei; Joseph Tsai, DIGITIMES [Monday 26 August 2013]
AMD has declined to comment on unannounced products.
my catch all from that article which being digitimes and from Amd anyway , isnt the last word on it:)
AMD's FM1 and AM3 sockets will start phasing out in mid-2013 and the end of 2013, respectively. By the end of 2013, Socket AM3+ processors will account for 30% of AMD's total processor shipments, while Socket FM2-based processors will account for the remaining 70%.
This says AM3 is phasing out ive an AM3+ thats not bothered:confused:
In 2015, for the desktop market, AMD will release Carrizo-based APUs, featuring Excavator architecture with two power consumption specifications: 45W and 65W. The company will also release Nolan to replace Beema.
Yes And??? no comment says Amd quite wisely since test yields are shit and im in mythbuster teritory now, ever the optimist:D
,, where exactly could amd go beyond 16 cores at this node size, and what exactly can amd Do about node size,, nothing, just sit back and wait:D
Slides like this were the norm:
From the right side of the slide only Trinity came to life, Komodo and Krishna were both cancelled.
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Terramar and Sepang were also cancelled, like Komodo:
Why build modular and not use all you Ips potential< just answer this one question forget any other from me
BTW, AMD's latest server slide looks like this:
Warsaw still uses Piledriver cores, so it's nothing else than a renamed or slightly tweaked Abu Dhabi / Seoul. No more than 16/8 cores.
Berlin is based on Kaveri, 1P server, FM2+ socket. Goes against Haswell-WS LGA1150.
Seattle is ARM based micro-server part, brand new stuff.
For Intel -> You pay for every thread for licensing.
For AMD -> You pay for every other core for licensing.
so yes there still flogging a similar horse atm, thats about all they can do untill rory's input starts showing through and the foundry's present a useable 20Nm:)
Oh and im not botherred re upgradeing as my motherboards done and dusted regardless due to asus turning a bit shit about bios updates, im swapping it all out when pciex3 and ddr4 make a handhold in consumerland ie not for a while yet lol ive enough here anyways.