Thursday, March 21st 2013
AMD to Cut "Trinity" APU Prices in April
In an effort to clear inventories of its current-generation A-series "Trinity" desktop APUs, creating room for next-generation "Richland," AMD is preparing a string of price-cuts for April. APUs including (but probably not limited to) A8-5600K, and A4-4000 series could be part of these price cuts.
In addition to its APUs, AMD is also planning early price-cuts of some of its socket AM3+ CPUs, such as the FX-8320, FX-6300, and FX-4300, which is probably preemptive to Intel's June launch of Core "Haswell" desktop processors. AMD recently launched the mobile variants of its A-series "Richland" APUs, its desktop variants could be launched some time in Q2 2013, beginning with high-performance parts such as the A10-6800K and A8-6600K.
Source:
DigiTimes
In addition to its APUs, AMD is also planning early price-cuts of some of its socket AM3+ CPUs, such as the FX-8320, FX-6300, and FX-4300, which is probably preemptive to Intel's June launch of Core "Haswell" desktop processors. AMD recently launched the mobile variants of its A-series "Richland" APUs, its desktop variants could be launched some time in Q2 2013, beginning with high-performance parts such as the A10-6800K and A8-6600K.
14 Comments on AMD to Cut "Trinity" APU Prices in April
Bintube streaming from RAR files loves those multithreads!
The CPU side of business needs to be on one node ahead of the APU side to be competitive to ARM and density/performance.
afaia, that doesn't seem likely. Kaveri (APU) will debut before the Steamroller CPU, whose core logic Kaveri will use.
I was under the impression that AMD's x86 CPU business was dependant upon leveraging the architecture for enterprise systems...and that in turn was highly dependant on socket interoperability of C32/G34- a platform that is starting to show real signs of age. I noted that AMD's server market share sits at 5.7% (266,000 units sold)- pretty much flat from the previous quarters 5.2% given the supposed impact of Piledriver based Opterons.