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    AMD hopes to grab more laptop design wins with Carrizo APUs

    A single motherboard combined with flexible chip choice should aid in its adoption.
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    Re: AMD hopes to grab more laptop design wins with Carrizo APUs

    I wonder if this means that modders will be able to easily swap out the CPU to upgrade a system. In any case I'll look forward to seeing more news and details about this product.

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    Re: AMD hopes to grab more laptop design wins with Carrizo APUs

    Streamlining is certainly a good thing, so I hope it works out for AMD.

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    Re: AMD hopes to grab more laptop design wins with Carrizo APUs

    More choice is always a good thing. Hopefully it should mean that you won't have to make as many comprises when choosing a laptop if you have needs that fall outside the mass market.

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    Re: AMD hopes to grab more laptop design wins with Carrizo APUs

    As above, if an easy cpu/apu upgrade is available it will be great. However the chassis makers need to make it easier too - have a HP530 here and it's about 24 screws and about 30 mins to get in to swap the cpu!
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    Re: AMD hopes to grab more laptop design wins with Carrizo APUs

    I doubt the APU will be available in a socketed package. The industry is moving away from socketed mobile CPUs, AFAIK AMD doesn't even have an up-to-date mobile socket design and it wouldn't make sense for them to develop one now.

    This slide indicates the APU will be available in a BGA package, i.e. soldered on board.


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    Re: AMD hopes to grab more laptop design wins with Carrizo APUs

    i'd guess this has as much to do with both big and little core solutions being SoC's now, making southbridges redundant, and thus encouraging a convergence of board design.

    yes, from the PoV of laptops, i imagine this convergence is targeted at soldered designs rather than a new socket, but i still wonder about what this says about Carizzo-L...

    will Carizzo-L adopt a 128bit bus to keep up with 22nm atom (not to mention 14nm atom)?
    this would help the pin-out convergence with big-core Carizzo. differentiation would be managed by memory speed, from DDR3 1333 to 2133.

    same question applies to IO; we know big-core Carrizo will reduce PCIe 3.0 lanes down to 8x (who needs 16x on a 25W product), will little-core move up from four, and will the same convergence happen with SATA3 and USB3.1?

    i am very enthusiastic about the prospect of an 25W big-core Carrizo as a home-server, but on what socket would it arrive as a desktop part?
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    Re: AMD hopes to grab more laptop design wins with Carrizo APUs

    The other day I thought about my Thinkpad X120e and realised that a new model (X150e or whatever; the current one is X140e) using Carrizo-L with Carrizo as an option would be great. That's what the same socket will enable, and I do hope Lenovo capitalises on it, because it would make for a really nice small laptop.

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    Re: AMD hopes to grab more laptop design wins with Carrizo APUs

    Quote Originally Posted by Jedibeeftrix View Post
    i am very enthusiastic about the prospect of an 25W big-core Carrizo as a home-server, but on what socket would it arrive as a desktop part?
    There were rumours a year ago that Carrizo would be FM2+ compatible, albeit with reduced PCIe lanes going to the graphics slot. That would probably involve switching off the integrated south bridge to use the one on the motherboard, which would be a shame.

    We shall see. If Intel are not bothering to release Broadwell in socket form (http://semiaccurate.com/2015/01/05/i...8w-broadwells/) then hopefully AMD will see this as an easy market that they can step into.

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