AMD said Monday that the two new members of its A-series "Kaveri" chips are now available for preorder, and launching Jan. 14. But the biggest update to its new hybrid CPUs with integrated graphics may be one of terminology.
AMD also revealed a couple of surprises: the Discovery Project, a sleeve that designed to plug into and enhance AMD-based tablets, and an envelope-sized PC prototype that uses one of AMD's next-generation ultrabook chip, code-named "Mullins". AMD also announced three new mobile GPUs for notebooks, including the R9 290 GTX, which will be included in gaming machines from MSI, Alienware, and Gigabyte; and the R5 M230.
To date, AMD and its rivals have defined the combination of a CPU with an integrated graphics chip in terms of their respective computing elements: four or eight cores on the compute side, and a larger number of graphics cores for graphics rendering.
But with the Kaveri class of APUs, AMD is changing its practice: inside the new A10-7700K and A10-7850K are 4 CPU cores and 8 Radeon R7 GPU cores. Now, however, AMD is simply referring to both as "compute cores," and failing to distinguish between the two, All told, both chips simply contain 12 "compute cores."
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