Two new Kabini APUs spotted E1-2150 and A4-5050 maybe HP only?
http://www.cpu-world.com/news_2014/2...s_spotted.html
Sounds like HP are getting in on the "semi-custom" side of AMD's silicon business, although deci-custom might be a more appropriate term given they've just taken existing AMD APUs and changed the clock speed!
Samsung did something similar with one of the Ativ Lite ranges, using an AMD APU but marketing it as a Samsung processor. If AMD get the semi-custom business growing the way they want, I suspect we might see a lot more of this kind of thing. Perhaps that's the hope for Kaveri - AMD do a small number of sample SKUs in the channel, and OEMs then pick and choose the clock speeds and configs they want as semi-custom parts.
lol
HP have had cut down/bits fused off silicon from AMD for ages. I think the lovely Athlon X2 5200 45W started off as an HP part, they seem to end up in the general channel after a few months.
So if you change that to "I want 2 cores at 2.5GHz and all the cache disabled please" then now you are sounding more like HP and are in with a chance
It would be nice if AMD had made Kaveri three module as previously hinted on one of their earlier documents. That and GDDR5 memory for the IGP would have made an awesome APU.
Intel subsidising tablet chips:
http://www.fudzilla.com/home/item/33...rts-below-cost
I don't remember "value engineering" as a module on my engineering degree course, though it was a while ago perhaps the syllabus has changed. Or this is slimy spin doctoring
Funnily enough Shark Bay is the name for the Haswell platform!!
Haswell die sizes revealed:
http://anandtech.com/show/7744/intel...-at-isscc-2014
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