AMD showcased the chip at their Future of
Compute event. The chip maker has revealed the Carrizo; a high
performance chip, and another, less powerful Carrizo-L chip. The Carrizo
will come with next gen Radeon graphics, whilst the Carrizo-L will come
with the older GCN-baseed Radeon R-series. Both the two chips will
apparently be ready to ship and will be integrated into devices in the
second quarter of 2015.
The Carrizo isn’t AMD’s first crack at
this game, in fact the new chip succeeds the previous Kaveri APU that
was announced last year. According to AMD, this chip is the first
high-performance version, though. The Carrizo is going to be the first
chip to fully comply with version 1.0 of the Heterogeneous System
Architecture (HSA). Basically, the CPU and GPU will work in tandem to
handle computational loads. This HSA achievement from AMD’s is due to
the fact that it manufactures both the CPU and the GPU (from the ATI
acquisition).
An important factor in mobile and
embedded devices is the amount of energy usage. This is an often
criticised area where Intel’s mobile chips are concerned. AMD’s chips
still employ the 28nm manufacturing process, so the power usage might
not be as substantially lower as AMD would like us to believe.
The AMD Carrizo and the Carrizo-L are
currently undergoing internal testing by AMD and the firm is confident
that it will be able to ship these new chips in the second quarter of
next year.
Interestingly, the other members of the HSA Foundation, including MediaTek, Qualcomm and Samsung, have yet to come out with a fully 1.0 compliant chip.
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