AMD APU13: Meet Beema, Mullins, Security Co-Processor

[exfileme]

AMD has introduced new low-power APUs at its developer summit.

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[thesuperguy]

This is great and all buuuuttt FX anyone?

 

[tntom]

Interesting strategy. I wonder if this was the implementation of ARM that was hinted by AMD back in January of 2012?

 

[battler624]

Isn't that the PS4 APU? wow that was a quick release, i remember hearing them saying its their latest and wont release to PC's until 2014...

 

[ragenalien]

Isn't that the PS4 APU? wow that was a quick release, i remember hearing them saying its their latest and wont release to PC's until 2014...

Both the PS4 and Xbox one use custom AMD apu's based off the current jaguar cores.

 

[sonofliberty08]

they r great mobile chips, but we r hardly to find 1 devices that pack the temash or kabini in the market, the manufacturer rather pack the crappy atom into their devices

 

[InvalidError]

This is great and all buuuuttt FX anyone?

With AMD betting the ship on hybrid computing, I think the CPU-only FX series are about to hit the end of the line.

 

[cmartin011]

sad the fx is not a priority has to to be keep no less than 15% of performance of intel to make the cake and no less than 10 percent performance (due to stronger gpu) to keep the apu buiness positive.

 

[cmartin011]

sad the fx is not a priority has to to be keep no less than 15% of performance of intel to make the cake and no less than 10 percent performance (due to stronger gpu) to keep the apu buiness positive.

 

[cmi86]

I swear there has to be an FX with ll these leaks of PD APU's, It wouldn't make any sense if there weren't. The question is why won't they talk about it ? Hopefully they are really on to something and are keeping tight lips to drop a bomb soon.

 

[renz496]

I swear there has to be an FX with ll these leaks of PD APU's, It wouldn't make any sense if there weren't. The question is why won't they talk about it ? Hopefully they are really on to something and are keeping tight lips to drop a bomb soon.

Either they were very tight lipped about it or they are going to say good bye forever to the FX processor and become APU only for consumer side.

 

[InvalidError]

I swear there has to be an FX with ll these leaks of PD APU's, It wouldn't make any sense if there weren't. The question is why won't they talk about it ? Hopefully they are really on to something and are keeping tight lips to drop a bomb soon.

Considering how strong AMD's commitment to HSA seems to be, I would think the biggest announcement they could make about the FX-series is that future AM3+/AM4 chips will be APUs instead of CPU-only.

 

[memadmax]

Yea, but can it play Crysis?
=P

 

[dormantreign]

Content Management......f that.

 

[pepe2907]

Well, I don't mind APUs, I only would like they to have at least four processor units /8 cores/ on board

 

[ikefu]

Theoretically, if AMD can get HSA working universally with all programs then they may see the kind of speed increase when paired with Discrete GPUs that would let them catch or surpass Intel in certain scenarios. This means they don't need the FX series anymore. A lot of games use repetitive calculations (particles, physics, etc) that are perfect for HSA offloading to the integrated GPU and freeing up cycles on the general computing cores. Good things are coming if this works out.

 

[hannibal]

They don't have money to compete in pure CPU front at this moment and as it has been said above the HSA is the way of AMD at this moment, so we will only see APU versions of AMD prosessors for some time. They can be pactical even in server environment, if the HSA can be implemented in those systems.
If you think that most powerfull Intel prosessors at this moment are APU versions (all Haswels so far) it would be allmost strange if AMD would release CPU without GPU capability considering it is the only thing at this moment where AMD can beat Intel at this moment.
What we should be worried about is when AMD will release 8 core APU with some real speed to compete the Haswell and Broadwell... It can take some time.

 

[MajinCry]

This HSA business better be backwards compatible. If it isn't, I'll be sticking with my 965 BE until it dies.

 

[qlum]

I bet if amd is going to make more high end cpu's that they will switch to the fm sock, remember we already have gpuless cpu's on fm

 

[GreaseMonkey_62]

Awesome. Finally looks like AMD is upping the ante and we should see some good APU based tablets soon.

 

[hannibal]

HSA is just a method of delivering tasks between CPU and GPU in most practical manner. Use CPU when it is the most efficient way of doing something, use GPU part when it is the most effient way of doing something else... New AMD prosessors are going to be better in this than previous prosessors but I don't see why it would not be possible to use the GPU of for example Sandy bridge to solve some problems on its own. The problem may be that those older CPUs does not handle the information transfer between CPU and GPU as well as these new versions are capable. It may render the usefullnes of task dividing to even negative in some cases. Lets wait and see how this will develop.

Ofcourse HSA is more because more direct information transfer between the CPU and GPU parts of the CPU, but above is the most common use of that.

 

[renz496]

Come on AMD people make with the FX already , nobody likes low power boring whatevers ...

maybe we will get something new in the FX line in 2015

http://techreport.com/news/25658/amd-fx-family-wont-get-a-steamroller-update-next-year