Thanks to DigiTimes we are getting some information out of Hot Chips about what is coming up from AMD. As Sebastian just posted we now have a bit more about the R9 Nano and you can bet we will see more in the near future. They also describe the new HBM developed in partnership with SK Hynix, 4GB of high-bandwidth memory over a 4096-bit interface will offer an impressive 512Gb/s of memory bandwidth. We also know a bit more about the new A-series APUs which will range up to 12 compute cores, four Excavator based CPUs and eight GCN based GPUs. They will also be introducing new power saving features called Adaptive Voltage and Frequency Scaling (AVFS) and will support the new H.265 compression standard. Click on through to DigiTimes or wait for more pictures and documentation to be released from Hot Chips.
"AMD is showcasing its new high-performance accelerated processing unit (APU), codenamed Carrizo, and the new AMD Radeon R9 Fury family of GPUs, codenamed Fiji, at the annual Hot Chips symposium."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- The TR Podcast 184: Streaming to the Shield and overrunning VRAM
- Backwards S-Pen Can Permanently Damage Note 5 @ Slashdot
- TSMC growing its 16nm client base @ DigiTimes
- Live Booting Linux @ Linux.com
- Office 2016 for Windows looks set for a 22 September launch @ The Inquirer
- MIT creates file system that will survive unexpected crashes @ The Inquirer
- Samsung smart fridge leaves Gmail logins open to attack @ The Register
- Intel Security hires ex-Cisco and Avaya man to run global channels @ The Register
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OK that’s already out mostly,
OK that’s already out mostly, but what about Arctic Islands, and the next generation of GCN. Yesterday they talked Carrizo, and its integrated GPU’s power savings features, Today is supposed to be about AMD’s next iteration of GPU/CGN microarchitecture. I’m disappointed in the amount/availability of Carrizo FX8800p parts in new laptops, laptops that can run the FX8800p at its full 35 watt maximum, and not any FX8800p parts shoehorned into 15 watt thermally constrained thin and light form factor laptops!
That marketing mistake with a business line of Carrizo APUs only rated for 15 watt usage is just another reason why AMD needs to dump its current marketing executives! There are no power business users interested in Ultrabook/Thin and light “Business” APUs/laptops, they want the full Carrizo FX8800p in a regular from factor business workhorse form factor laptop, and the full performance metric of the FX8800p (35 watt) part. If the laptop APU(35 watt) has the ability to be configured for 15 watts, make a laptop that can run the part at 35 watts when the business user needs the power, that can be dialed/profiled down by the same business user to run at 15 watts for battery life while the user is traveling on a plane/other transportation, but this underpowered by designed Ultrabook/thin and light obsession needs to end!
The idea is to give the user more options, and not give the OEM’s a reason and ability to cram the APU part into an available Thin and light laptop case and save money by pawning of some surplus laptop case parts obtained on sale. This loss leader sales strategy needs to stop especially with AMDs latest laptop APU parts. The same goes for other features missing on AMD’s APU based laptops, always low end, and low screen resolution options.
“I’m disappointed in the
“I’m disappointed in the amount/availability of Carrizo FX8800p parts in new laptops,”
you need to ask AMD why there are less OEM using AMD parts in laptop.
“but this underpowered by designed Ultrabook/thin and light obsession needs to end!”
you need to carter into what the market demand. look qualcomm once mock those octa core SoC but in the end they also made one because of market demand for it.
There are FX8800p laptops,
There are FX8800p laptops, but they are limited to 15 watts,(No 35 Watt rated laptop SKUs) and the market never demanded Ultrabooks, It was Intel’s marketing and Intel’s Apple envy that pushed that UltraBook and thin and light obsession onto the non Apple laptop market. There was never any initial consumer desire beyond Apple’s own rarefied market for its thin and light AND overpriced for the performance Macbooks, that I always avoided buying.
Intel(Marketing), and Intel with its monopoly control of the PC/Laptop CPU/SOC market is the one that funded the whole Ultrabook(Tm)/Thin and Light obsession as first practiced by Apple, and forced it onto the PC/laptop marketplace, with Intel’s contra revenue style Ultrabook(Tm) initiative. Intel Knew that the Die/Node shrinks were coming to an end, and its management/marketing devised a way to pawn off onto the consumers an underpowered brand/style of laptops that were intentionally designed to move the laptop market performance bar downwards in the name of “power savings” and segment the market into the weak and the weaker, with users having to pay more money for the weaker SKUs, that cost Intel less money to make.
Those regular form factor laptops are now starting to be called “gaming” laptops, or “workstation” and they barely have the equivalent performance of the regular form factor laptop SKUs of old. The consumer had very little input(Goose Egg) into this process!
“I’m disappointed in the
“I’m disappointed in the amount/availability of Carrizo FX8800p parts in new laptops,”
you need to ask AMD why there are less OEM using AMD parts in laptop.
“but this underpowered by designed Ultrabook/thin and light obsession needs to end!”
you need to carter into what the market demand. look qualcomm once mock those octa core SoC but in the end they also made one because of market demand for it.