Advanced Micro Devices will ship its next-generation Kaveri architecture by January, executives said Monday evening.
Specifically, desktop availability will take place on January 14, executives said at AMD's APU13 conferences on Monday. Chips for notebooks, servers, and embedded systems will follow later in the year, executives said.
AMD executives also announced the performance of the Kaveri—856 gigaflops. A diagram displayed by AMD appears to show two "Steamroller" CPU cores and eight Radeon graphics cores. AMD executives did not formerly disclose how fast the chips would run, nor how much they would cost. But a footnote on a presentation slide appears to show the Kaveri's product name (the AMD A10-7850K) with a note that that figure assumes four 3.7GHz CPU cores, as well as 512 GPUs running at 720MHz.
AMDA slide footnote appears to reveal some of the Kaveri specs (in blue). (Click to enlarge.)
While AMD and its much larger rival Intel are constantly seeking ways to constantly improve the performance of their chips, both companies have begun taking somewhat divergent paths toward the same goal. Both now use multicore approaches, where four, eight, or even more processor cores are laid out in parallel and divvy up the processor tasks.
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