APUs
Alongside AMD’s widely expected client product announcements this evening for desktop CPUs, mobile CPUs, and mobile GPUs, AMD’s CEO Dr. Lisa Su also had a surprise up her sleeve for the large crowd gathered for her prime CES keynote: a sneak peak at MI300, AMD’s next-generation data center APU that is currently under development. With silicon literally in hand, the quick teaser laid out the basic specifications of the part, along with reiterating AMD’s intentions of taking leadership in the HPC market. First unveiled by AMD during their 2022 Financial Analyst Day back in June of 2022, MI300 is AMD’s first shot at building a true data center/HPC-class APU, combining the best of AMD’s CPU and GPU technologies. As was laid out at the time...
AMD's Trinity APU at CES, Shipping in Mid-2012
AMD has a bunch of cool stuff to show off at this year's CES. The first is the most expected: a demo of its upcoming Trinity APU. The demo...
48 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/12/2012AMD Intros New Unlocked K-Series Llano APUs: A8-3870K & A8-3670K
When we first reviewed Llano we thought it was a fairly competent desktop part if you needed a solution that didn't rely on discrete graphics. My biggest issue with...
36 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 12/20/2011AMD's First Dual-Core Llano APUs: A4-3400 & A4-3300 Launched
Today AMD introduced its first dual-core Llano APUs: the A4-3400 and A4-3300. These APUs have only 758M active transistors, a bit over half of the transistors in the bigger...
14 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/7/2011HP Leaks Three Unreleased AMD A-series APUs
HP has accidentally leaked three AMD A-series APUs while updating the service guide for HP Pavilion g7. The update simply includes SKUs and specs for three yet to be...
5 by Kristian Vättö on 9/7/2011Intel's Haswell IGP to Feature DirectX 11.1, Increased Professional Application Support
Intel's integrated graphics processors have long had a poor reputation when it comes to gaming, and while the IGPs get a little closer to competitiveness with each iteration, that...
9 by Andrew Cunningham on 8/5/2011Computex 2011: AMD Announces Bobcat-based Z Series APUs for Tablet Market
While AMD does not have a true SoC to combat the likes of Intel, NVIDIA, and ARM, this doesn’t mean they’re completely ignoring the market for the type of...
8 by Ryan Smith on 6/1/2011Computex 2011: AMD Bulldozer, Llano, Trinity, & New VISION Branding
AMD’s Computex 2011 conference just wrapped up. Computex is not AMD’s traditional grounds for major new announcements – they’d rather have their own events for that – but alongside...
26 by Ryan Smith on 6/1/2011