AMD 2012 Mobile Roadmap: Rapid Evolution of Fusion APU

Although bulldozers encountered many obstacles, the Fusion APU Fusion processor was smooth, especially in the mobile field. It has already planned the 2012 full-platform products early.

AMD currently has two APU platforms in the mobile space: first, low-power entry-level Brazos, processor Ontario and Zacate, and A50M chipset, and the second is the upcoming high-performance mainstream Sabine, handled by Llano APU. Device, A70M/A60M chipset configuration. Both are optional Vancouver Vancouver family Radeon HD 6000M series graphics card.

Until next year, the low-power platform will evolve to "Deccan", in which the APU still has two "Krishna" and "Wichita" based on an improved version of the Bobcat processor core, but the manufacturing process has been upgraded from 40nm to 28nm. It is worth noting that the package format will also be changed from FT1 BGA to FT2 BGA, but since this processor is directly soldered on the motherboard, it has no practical effect.

With the new chipset code "Yuba", but did not release any specific information, do not know whether it can bring native USB 3.0.

The new mainstream platform is "Comal", among which the APU processor has three kinds of "Trinity", "Weatherford", and "Richland". The main difference is that the graphics cores are different, which are the highest performance, performance level, and mainstream level. The processor core codename "Piledriver" is hopefully based on the bulldozer architecture.

The encapsulation interface has also changed slightly from FS1 uPGA to FS1r2 PGA, and it is not known whether it can maintain backward compatibility.

The chipset does not move and continues to use the A70M and A60M.

Both new platforms can choose a new generation of discrete graphics, London London family Radeon HD 7000M series.