Engineering Sample of AMD Steamroller APU Spotted?

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The 'slow clocks' could be there for several reasons - some of which could be:
1. Architectural changes that brought it close if not up to par with Intel in clock per clock (so there's no reason for too high clock speeds) - and their Turbo would actually be able to sustain 2.3 GhZ at all times whereas Intel chips cannot sustain their higher clocks for long periods of time and will be closer to their base clocks most of the time (which are sitting at around 2.4GhZ for mobile i7 quads).
2. This could be a lower end chip (akin to A6 or A8) and not high end - might also be for tablets and hybrid type systems (explaining why its clocked lower).
3. This is an engineering sample that shouldn't be misunderstood for the 'end product' (which could easily be different) and is used primarily for testing purposes before other engineering samples based on the end product arrive.

And there are other possible explanations to be taken into account.

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11115762 said:

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I read this at x-bits last week.

"KV Spectre Mobile 35W"


People itch about clock speeds without really reading the article. I don't know for sure, but I'm pretty sure this is an mobile part.