Monday, September 16th 2019
AMD Readies the Low-Power "Dali" APU for Thin-and-Light Notebooks
AMD is expected to bring back its low-power APU family in 2020 with the new "Dali" silicon. Updated company roadmap slides see the inclusion of "Dali" as a "value mobile APU," positioned under "Renoir," a performance APU targeting both the mainstream notebook and desktop (socket AM4) platforms. AMD looks keen to branch out its APU business in two directions.
"Renoir" is expected to be a "Zen 2" based APU with CPU performance matching at least the Ryzen 5 3600 or 3700X, and a faster "Vega" based iGPU. It wouldn't surprise us if "Dali" is a monolithic 7 nm die with two "Zen 2" CPU cores and a tiny iGPU with 3-4 compute units. "Renoir," on the other hand, could be an MCM with an 8-core "Zen 2" chiplet and an enlarged I/O controller die that has the iGPU. "Dali" could see the light of the day only in 2020, by which time TSMC could substantially increase its 7 nm volumes and clear the decks for its new 7 nm EUV mass-production.
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Guru3D
"Renoir" is expected to be a "Zen 2" based APU with CPU performance matching at least the Ryzen 5 3600 or 3700X, and a faster "Vega" based iGPU. It wouldn't surprise us if "Dali" is a monolithic 7 nm die with two "Zen 2" CPU cores and a tiny iGPU with 3-4 compute units. "Renoir," on the other hand, could be an MCM with an 8-core "Zen 2" chiplet and an enlarged I/O controller die that has the iGPU. "Dali" could see the light of the day only in 2020, by which time TSMC could substantially increase its 7 nm volumes and clear the decks for its new 7 nm EUV mass-production.
8 Comments on AMD Readies the Low-Power "Dali" APU for Thin-and-Light Notebooks
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Considering they are positioning the 6 core 3600 as the new mainstream for desktop processors, it would make sense to offer multiple variants at different price points.
But, really, an APU now needs to scale from 4 cores to 6 & 8 cores, with AMD's current APU's one of the major complaint was lack of anything more than 4C. Intel now have 6C for a while (8th gen) and 6 & 8C mobile chips in their latest 9th gen. while AMD has nothing to compete with.
So, we really need 6 & 8 cores for high-end mobile APU's and Desktop APU's, mobile APU's should have cTDP of 35W-45W. While desktop APU's could scale even higher to 65W and maybe more.
AMD started to increase the core count on the desktop and they're leading in that market but they couldn't do it in the mobile, now Intel is leading in the mobile.