AMD Launching Carrizo APU Featuring Excavator in December

According to Digitimes AMD is preparing to release its next generation APU code named Carrizo this twelvemonth. The offset APUs to the scene are the Carrizo-L family for entry level notebooks. With the more capable total blown Carrizo chips coming to mainstream notebooks later in 2022.

AMD Carrizo APU Volition Replace Kaveri, Beema and Mullins

Carrizo will be replacing Kaveri in mainstream notebooks by March of 2022. The Carrizo-L family however volition be coming sooner. And it will replace current low power Beema and Mullins APUs by the end of this yr in December. Beema and Mullins are AMD'southward latest low power APUs based on the Puma CPU core. Which is the second generation of the Jaguar core featured in the PS4 and XBOX One.

Mainstream Carrizo will compete with Intel's Cadre i7, Core i5 and Core i3 mobile series of processors. While Carrizo-L will be competing with the lower cost Pentium and Celeron chips.

AMD'south Carrizo processors will characteristic quad-core compages and adopt a 28nm process and Excavator Core. The APUs will besides support DDR3-2133 memory, Windows 10/Windows eight.ane, Ubuntu and SLED operating systems, the sources noted.

AMD Adopting a New Strategy

AMD's strategy for the past three years has been to target the depression power segment with the smaller more efficient true cat cores (Bobcat, Jaguar). While the mainstream segment gets the more powerful only besides more power hungry Bulldozer family unit based designs.

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With the 4th generation of the Bulldozer family of cores code named Excavator. AMD will begin a new strategy.In which it will use a unmarried core design to target both the depression power and mainstream segments. AMD has driven the efficiency of its new CPU cadre to a level that makes this viable. AMD will still target the ultra low power segment with small cores in 2022 with Skybridge. With Skybridge AMD will employ ARM cores and x86 cores interchangeably in one SOC. Skybridge SOCs will feature tuned A57 ARM cores and Puma+ cores. The chips will exist 20nm based and will target tablets and convertibles in 2022. The SOCs in question are code named Nolan and Amur which we've covered in an article yesterday.

To people in the know this seems similar less of a surprise. Since Intel has been following this strategy equally well with its Cadre family of processors. While Intel volition continue to have a second even lower ability family of processors based on the depression power Atom family of cores. AMD ways to address the Atom sort of marketplace segment with ARM cores instead. Leveraging the inherent architectural efficiency of the ARM ISA over x86. Which is something Intel doesn't intend to do because it would represent something of an admission of defeat for the company that's all about x86.