A roadmap of Mobile AMD processors has just been published on the Web and if the information it contains were, the manufacturer will come out the alternate of the Llano (the Trinity) in the first quarter of 2012. The Comal platform which will carry the Trinity should co-exist for a while with Sabine systems which are equipped with processors Llano and chipsets A70M or A60M. Comal will use the same chipsets as Sabine. The roadmap also shows that AMD plans to get out of new mobile processors in 2013. Answer on behalf of Kaveri to conventional laptops, Kabini for the Ultrabooks and Samara for systems very low consumption, such as shelves or it shipped.
For the record, the Trinity shall belong to the family of processors AMD A8, A6 and A4. They have the great feature to use a Piledriver architecture which is a derivative of the Bulldozer that happen next month in the version for desktop (cf. "AMD FX Zambezi: under $ 250, launch on 12/10"). The Llano today K10.5 architecture begins to date. AMD has already presented the Trinity to the public (cf. "AMD demonstrates its Trinity"Bulldozer inside"APU") and some code names suggest that it is rather confident (cf. "AMD: APU Trinity, a"Devastator"?").
The idea of an output of the Trinity for 2012 is not new or surprising (cf. "The roadmap of the APU AMD Trinity for 2012"), but the fact that they are ready for a marketing early next year is a little more surprising while the Llano came out last June (see "APU AMD A8-3500: the Llano folder"). According to documents posted in the forum of 3D Center, AMD would have produced the first copies of test of the Trinity in last August and copies ready for mass production should be finalized between December 2011 and January 2012 for a launch of the chains of production in the first months of next year.
The roadmap is not new technical features. We know just these integrate a APU core graph London and that they will use the same Socket FS1 as the Llano. The roadmap also speak of the arrival of Wichita and KrishnaAPU, without providing further details to what we already know (cf. "AMD: a few details on the APU Wichita and Krishna"), i.e. the use of Bobcat cores and a DirectX 11 London GPU. The roadmap offers however more information on the Yuba controller that will support 2 port SATA 6 GB/s, 2 USB 3.0 ports and 10 USB 2.0 ports, as well as 4-Port PCI-Express. It will have a controller for memory SDHC card and a system of management of the speed of the processor fan.
We also learn a little bit more on Hondo, the CPU very low consumption which will only require 4.5 W and which will integrate two cores Bobcat. We know that it will have the same GPU DirectX 11 Ontario, Zacate or Desna ( Loveland). It will use also of the same controller memory DDR3/DDR3-L 1066 and will be based on the same Socket FT1. Therefore, it is likely that it is above all a die shrink.
Finally, the roadmap opens the door to mobile platforms from 2013. Comal will be replaced by Indus, a Kaveriprocessor based system. Is known yet very little on these chips use a processor code-named Steamrollerarchitecture. They will be based on a Socket FS2. The platform will also carry a Boltonchipset.
The Kabini processors and the chipset Yangtze shall belong to the Keralaplatform. The APU will use a core Jaguar. They will replace the Decan and will target the Ultrabooks. Finally, the APU Samara low consumption will use the same architecture as the Kabini, but they will be coupled to Salton chipsets and belong to a family of platform she also named Samara. No information was filtered by the graphics processor that will be integrated into these chips.
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