Tuesday, August 27th 2013
AMD Updates Product Roadmap for 2014-2015
AMD reportedly updated its consumer products roadmap for 2014 thru 2015 to account for changes in the industry. The company is expected to unveil its next-generation "Volcanic Islands" GPU family by late-September, 2013. In the first quarter of 2014, the company is expected to unveil its 4th generation entry-level APUs, codenamed "Kabini." Built in ST3 socket for notebooks, and FS1B for desktops, this product family will include dual- and quad-core parts, with TDPs under 25W. Among the quad-core parts are the A4-5350 and A4-5150, and among the dual-core ones is the E1-2650.
"Kabini" will enter mass-production in February 2014, and will be formally announced in the following month. Kabini's early-2014 launch, delayed from late-2013, will have a cascading effect on its successor's launch. "Beema," its successor, will now launch in either late-2014, or early-2015. "Beema" will be based on the same socket types as "Kabini," but will incorporate more HSA technologies.
In 2014 AMD's AM3 socket will retire after a 5-year run at the markets, as would its first APU socket, FM1. By the end of 2013, APUs would amount for 70 percent of AMD processors, while CPUs (chips devoid of on-die graphics), will amount for 30 percent. In 2015, AMD plans to launch "Carrizo," an APU that uses CPU cores based on AMD's next-generation "Excavator" micro-architecture. While Intel "tick-tocks" its product development cycle on two factors, CPU micro-architecture and silicon-fab process; AMD's own "tick-tock" could follow succeeding CPU and GPU micro-architectures.
Source:
DigiTimes
"Kabini" will enter mass-production in February 2014, and will be formally announced in the following month. Kabini's early-2014 launch, delayed from late-2013, will have a cascading effect on its successor's launch. "Beema," its successor, will now launch in either late-2014, or early-2015. "Beema" will be based on the same socket types as "Kabini," but will incorporate more HSA technologies.
In 2014 AMD's AM3 socket will retire after a 5-year run at the markets, as would its first APU socket, FM1. By the end of 2013, APUs would amount for 70 percent of AMD processors, while CPUs (chips devoid of on-die graphics), will amount for 30 percent. In 2015, AMD plans to launch "Carrizo," an APU that uses CPU cores based on AMD's next-generation "Excavator" micro-architecture. While Intel "tick-tocks" its product development cycle on two factors, CPU micro-architecture and silicon-fab process; AMD's own "tick-tock" could follow succeeding CPU and GPU micro-architectures.
45 Comments on AMD Updates Product Roadmap for 2014-2015
Since the CPU features a lot of new hardware under the hood in terms of memory management, which is the weak link for AMD and the higher speed memory allowing for reduced latency, again another weak spot, we don't know the performance of the CPU. So unless you have a magic genie who has provided you some native and comparative analysis of its performance.......
A console has never had so much power before. A dual core x86 would have wiped the floor with those measly tricore PowerPCs when the 360/PS3 were released (but they didn't like the cost).
Now, we have monumental power in comparison, but it sucks? Pffft, if the devs are smart they'll use the new extensions (introduced with BD) in Jaguar accelerating it even more.
This article is full of inaccuracies and leaves out key information. First of all the new road map from AMD for consumers has NOT been released. It will be released sometime between the end of October and the November AMD APU Conference (used to be called the developer's conference). It never mentions Kaveri but spends a whole lot of time about Kabini which is not a steamroller technology. It mentions the end of AM3 but that is already dead. This news is falsified and does NOT come from AMD. Take it with a grain of salt. It also does not mention HSA and the role it will play with APU architecture. This is purely a hack post and a poor one at that.
www.scei.co.jp/corporate/release/130221a_e.html
(using flops to compare performance generally turns out terribly by the way)
I should also point out that a 2600K can do 128300 mips at 3.4GHZ, where the 360 cpu can only do 19200 mips
So yeah, try not to use things like flops and mips when comparing processors, they don't really mimic real world performance
EDIT: Also are you trying to compare the overall flops of a device (including the gpu) to just a cpu, because your ps3 number is above the theoretical maximum for the chip, and way over the max for it's configuration in the ps3
In short, unless you work for MS, Sony, AMD, or Intel or have a genie, you are an internet troll or worse, a 12 yr old kid that wants to look big with your "secret project".
Proof?
With HSA AMD tries to convince everyone (especially 3D game developers) that CPU doesn't matter anymore, but it's all about the GPU. And if they succeed with their HSA push, then they may eventually be right: it may be more than enough to have a 2-module Kaveri with a great GCN2 based iGPU to run such games that are designed around the HSA concept. They don't talk about such apps though that would require much more raw CPU power than Kaveri, like video encoding, CAD/CAM, but that only means they let Intel rule that market.
Excavator will come in 2015. It will not be on .28nm process as you suggest. it will be a die shrink from .28nm most likely .22 nm.
UPDATE: In response to the article below, a source familiar with AMD's roadmap claims that the information in the report from DigiTimes is not entirely accurate. Purportedly a number of desktop-oriented Kabini APUs for desktops are already shipping, or have already been on shelves for a short while. On top of this, the SKUs mentioned below are also arriving sooner than originally planned, rather than later. Another piece of information that came to see daylight is that AMD may be ditching the “A-series” nomenclature, as well as the four-number identifiers for APUs. This means that the models listed below are likely to retail with a different name. No information was revealed regarding the new naming system.