APUs
Last year, AMD unveiled their entry-level 'Mendicino' mobile parts to the market, which combine their 2019 Zen 2 cores and their RDNA 2.0 integrated graphics to create an affordable selection of configurations for mainstream mobile devices. Although much of the discussion over the last few months has been about their Ryzen 7040 mobile parts, AMD has launched four new SKUs explicitly designed for the Chromebook space, the Ryzen and Athlon 7020C series. Some of the most notable features of AMD's Ryzen/Athlon 7020C series processors for Chromebooks include three different configurations of cores and threads, ranging from entry-level 2C/2T up to 4C/8T, all with AMD's RDNA 2-based Radeon 610M mobile integrated graphics. Designed for a wide variety of tasks and users, including and not limited to...
EKWB Releases Its First X470 Series Monoblock for ASUS ROG Strix X470-F Gaming
With the release of the new X470 based chipset for the 2nd Generation AMD Ryzen CPUs, board partners have brought to market new motherboards designed to support AMD's new...
4 by Joe Shields on 4/25/2018
AMD Tech Day at CES: 2018 Roadmap Revealed, with Ryzen APUs, Zen+ on 12nm, Vega on 7nm
Updated Feb 1st! To mark the start of the annual CES trade show, AMD invited the press in early to sample the latest technologies coming to its portfolio in 2018...
136 by Ian Cutress on 2/1/2018
Ryzen Mobile is Launched: AMD APUs for Laptops, with Vega and Updated Zen
The final piece of AMD’s return to high-performance computing is in laptops. While Ryzen, Threadripper, and EPYC have used the 8-core Zeppelin building block for their products, the laptop...
141 by Ian Cutress on 10/26/2017
AMD's 35W "Bristol Ridge" A-Series APUs Now Available at Retail
We have some good news for low-power AMD builders this morning: AMD has (finally) begun to sell the 35W versions of their "Bristol Ridge" desktop APUs. Overall the company...
38 by Anton Shilov on 9/6/2017
AMD Releases Bristol Ridge to Retail: AM4 Gets APUs
The focus for AMD’s AM4 platform is to span a wide range of performance and price points. We’ve had the launch of the Ryzen CPU family, featuring quad cores...
29 by Ian Cutress on 7/27/2017
AMD Announces 7th Gen Bristol Ridge PRO APUs with Extended Support
There are a number of directions for ‘professional grade’ processors in the market, varying from embedded to long-life support to server functionality. AMD’s PRO lines of processors are akin...
26 by Ian Cutress on 10/4/2016
AMD 7th Gen Bristol Ridge and AM4 Analysis: Up to A12-9800, B350/A320 Chipset, OEMs first, PIBs Later
Over the last two weeks, AMD officially launched their 7th Generation Bristol Ridge processors as well as the new AM4 socket and related chipsets. The launch was somewhat muted...
125 by Ian Cutress on 9/23/2016
AMD Amends GlobalFoundries Wafer Supply Agreement Through 2020, Gaining New Flexibility & New Costs
This evening AMD has announced that they have updated their long-standing wafer supply agreement with fab parter GlobalFoundries. The new agreement, which makes some notable alterations to wafer order...
17 by Ryan Smith on 9/1/2016
AMD Announces the 7th Generation APU: Excavator mk2 in Bristol Ridge and Stoney Ridge for Notebooks
The Carrizo SoC, using Excavator cores, was touted in the press as being the biggest upgrade to the base Bulldozer design since the introduction of Bulldozer itself. This was...
69 by Ian Cutress on 5/31/2016
AMD Announces Computex 2016 Webcast: May 31st, 7pm Pacific
With the annual Computex Taipei trade show quickly approaching, AMD sends word that they will be hosting a live webcast for their annual press conference at the show. The...
50 by Ryan Smith on 5/20/2016
AMD Launches the A10-7890K and Athlon X4 880K
In what seems to be a common theme every month, AMD’s recent APU release schedule has been to introduce one or two models each news cycle. For the most...
63 by Ian Cutress on 3/1/2016
Who Controls the User Experience? AMD’s Carrizo Thoroughly Tested
In Q2 of 2015, AMD officially launched Carrizo, their new APU aimed at mobile devices such as laptops and portable all-in-ones that normally accommodate 15W-35W processors. Quoted in the...
175 by Ian Cutress on 2/4/2016
AMD Launches Excavator on Desktop: The 65W Athlon X4 845 for $70
As part of today’s launch AMD released two new Kaveri based APUs as part of the FM2+ platform, the A10-7860K and the A6-7470K, as well as clarifying the way...
43 by Ian Cutress on 2/2/2016
AMD Launches new Coolers and 65W Kaveri APUs: the A10-7860K and A6-7470K
Over the past two years we’ve reviewed almost every AMD Kaveri desktop processor to have been released – the A10-7850K, the A8-7600, the A10-7800, the A8-7650K, the A4-7400K, the...
18 by Ian Cutress on 2/2/2016
AMD Reveals Wraith: Next-Generation Cooler for Microprocessors
Both AMD and Intel bundle cooling solutions with their microprocessors. Such coolers are inexpensive, they are rather reliable and they do their job. They are not supposed to enable...
54 by Anton Shilov on 1/8/2016
The AMD A8-7670K APU Review: Aiming for Rocket League
Over the past couple of years, AMD has slowly released their mainstream brand of Kaveri processors. In turn, we have reviewed them, and they consistently aim to provide a...
154 by Ian Cutress on 11/18/2015
GlobalFoundries and AMD Announce First 14nm FinFET Sample Production Success
GlobalFoundries, AMD’s former chip manufacturing arm, is a fab that has seen some hard times. After being spun-off from AMD in 2009, the company has encountered repeated trouble releasing...
58 by Ryan Smith on 11/5/2015
AMD Launches Excavator Based R-Series APUs for Embedded with DDR4 Support
Despite the recent news surrounding AMDs reorganization and financials, today AMD is announcing the launch of its first DDR4 processors. But rather than aiming at the high end or...
34 by Ian Cutress on 10/21/2015
AMD Corporate Fellow Phil Rogers Leaves Company, Joins NVIDIA
With respect to both structure and personnel, the last few months have been busy – if not tumultuous – for AMD. The company recently reorganized itself so that their...
83 by Ryan Smith on 10/13/2015
AMD Releases New PRO Mobile APUs: Carrizo up to A12-8800B
We touched upon this very briefly in our recent HP Elitebook news, but at the end of September AMD officially launched four new professional mobile APUs under the AMD...
53 by Ian Cutress on 10/2/2015
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