Report: AMD Richland APUs Will Hit Shelves March 19th
More information has been revealed regarding the launch dates of AMDs upcoming APUs and CPUs.
AMD has announced that it will be releasing 6 versions of their Richland APU on March 19th 2013 with ULV variants expected to arrive in May Richland’s specifications can be viewed at the following link. The Kaveri APU will feature Steamroller based cores paired with an iGPU derived from the GCN architecture.
Also announced was the highly anticipated 28nm Kabini SoC which will be released in 2013 with the E-series in May, followed by the X-Series towards the end of Q2 2013.
Finally, the 2nd Generation of Piledriver based CPUs will be on store shelves in May and will feature increased clock speeds that will result in small IPC improvements.


Yeah, the way story images are handled on this site is pretty annoying/retarded.
Keep up the good work AMD!
you wait for tomshardware to finish and publish the latest sub $200 gaming cpu roundup so that they can't include richland apus in gaming cpu benches. very smart!
too bad xbitlabs and techreport are gonna go ape!@#$ on you at launch!!!! XD
incidentally, obr gets 'low confidence' rating by my web filter.
edit: almost forgot why i posted in the first place: dear amd, any chance of finally making the ever-elusive athlon ii x4 750/751k(or any trinity-based athlon) cpus available worldwide, ever? thanks.
Only architectural changes can improve IPC. Higher clocks improve overall throughput at a given IPC level. Higher clock speed without architectural improvements may actually slightly decrease IPC due to more frequent cache misses, execution stalls and other delays from widened clock discrepancy between on-core and off-core logic/RAM/IO.
Yeah, the way story images are handled on this site is pretty annoying/retarded.
Want that. Seriously for decoding video's using OpenCL on the gpu, the more appropriate GCN is a good improvement.
I approve of AMD's execution
AMD has been pushing the clock speed of chips since they started and they are quite good at getting more performance by increasing the clock speed of their chips. I am sure that they are very aware of the problems that can occur as clock speeds are pushed higher and at this point in time seem to be very good at solving those problems.
No, it says they're releasing a 2nd gen piledriver CPU (FX).
Sadly, you are right
Here's hoping AMD keeps the course and is able to kick-ass in the low power arena.
Its amazing how much people forget you don't need an entire architecture change to show a slight ipc increase.
Remember C2 to C3 pheonom? http://www.overclockersclub.com/reviews/phenom2_965_refresh/15.htm
clock speed stayed the same, guess what happeed? A small ipc improvement at the same clock speed and increased overall clock speeds ... will history repeat itself without an architecture change?
trick will be the dd3 system ram.
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