AMD’s desktop processors will begin production in March, Trinity
The company Advanced Micro Devices plans to begin mass production of accelerated processors (APU), code-named Trinity for desktop PCs in March 2012. Initially the company will focus on energy-efficient systems, and some in May will begin production of more powerful chips Fusion.
According to journalists at the hands of X-bit labs documents at the beginning or middle of March 2012 AMD is going to start mass production of APU Series A, with power up to 65W. Then in early May 2012 the company will print chips Trinity already having 100 watts TDP and therefore higher performance.
The family of 65-watt desktop chip will consist of models A10-5700, A8-5500, A6-A4-5400 and 5300, and 100-watt series will consist initially of only two models – A10-5800 A8-5600. It is not clear whether all will go the AMD version on sale at the same time, or 65-watt chips, which will begin mass production for 2 months before reaching the market in front of their more powerful counterparts.
Before launching the expected desktop processor hybrid company is going to Trinity in January 2012 proposal to expand Llano new models: A8-3870K and A6-3670K with an unlocked multiplier and A8-3820, A6-A4-3620 and 3420. Learn more about .
The second generation of accelerated AMD processors for computers average receive a code name Trinity (for laptops – the platform Comal, and desktop PC – Virgo) and will be subject to the same 32-nm process technology HKMG-norms of Globalfoundries, and that the Llano. APU will receive new core x86 architecture with improved Bulldozer (Piledriver), integrated graphics, a series of AMD Radeon HD 7000 (Southern Islands) architecture VLIW4 and DirectX 11 support, dual-channel DDR3 memory controller 2133 MHz and a number of other improvements. The chips will be compatible with the new contact area FM2.
According to one of the slides, Leaked, AMD assumes that the x86-kernel Piledriver (enhanced architecture Bulldozer) at Trinity will offer up to 20% performance increase compared with the nuclei of Husky in Llano and will support the technology of automatic overclocking Turbo Core 3.0. It should be noted that these data were obtained in the multimedia processing tasks, so that in reality the increase relative to Llano can vary greatly depending on the type of load. Also, the integrated graphics with the new architecture will provide a play for 30% better performance with respect to the use of Llano. Trinity chips will have up to 4 cores x86 and up to 4 MB of cache L2. As in the 32-nm chips Llano, L3 cache memory will be absent in order to save chip area.
AMD expects that the new hybrid processors will not only much faster Llano, but will also be available on the market more widely by increasing the share of the yield of 32-nm chips SOI / HKMG with wafer contract manufacturer (significant improvement in these indicators Globalfoundries, seems to have occurred this quarter).