AMD Talks Up The Carrizo APU At ISSCC

[duby229]

I think the exact statement is that there won't be a socketed part at launch (AFAIK that is because a new socket & mobo would be required due to increased integration) but I imagine it will show up in more than just laptops anyways.

OK, cool. I imagine that eventually AMD will develop a new socket for chipsets with integrated southbridges. I am curious how they would layout the traces.

EDIT: I imagine a socketed design might still need a PCIe bridge in order to keep pincount down.

[hiddenmaverick]

Chromebooks

I'd like to see these things end up in a Chromebook model. It would be nice actually to see any AMD processor end up in a Chromebook. I'm surprised AMD hasn't tapped that market by now.

[bridgman]

OK, cool. I imagine that eventually AMD will develop a new socket for chipsets with integrated southbridges. I am curious how they would layout the traces.

EDIT: I imagine a socketed design might still need a PCIe bridge in order to keep pincount down.

Just to clarify, when I said "will show up in more than just laptops" that could be either by soldering the non-socketed part onto a mobo or by a new socket. One of the perverse things in this business is that as you integrate more stuff into a single chip the motherboard becomes simpler and so the benefit of a socket goes down.

Regarding amdgpu, it's probably obvious but it's going through the usual IP review/approval exercises so as usual you'll probably see it within 30 minutes of agd5f receiving final approval. It's a fairly big slug of IP (new HW generation etc..) so not a trivial exercise.

[Nille]

And where are the HSA Applications? Where are the ffmpeg patches for until the VCE? Why AMD stop working on libjpeg-turbo?

[gnufreex]

I beleive it's that Carrizo has a southbridge integrated on the CPU die.

I am curious about the socket it might use, or if it's a BGA.

Only BGA for now, for laptops and monoblocks.

Socketed version might show up in 2016, as low end offering complimenting Zen high end parts.

[Nille]

Only BGA for now, for laptops and monoblocks.

Let us guess. Only in the Big ones with crappy display resolutions :/

AMD should build some reference devices that comes to the customer ...

[asdfblah]

I want to see "mini-PCs", cheap & powerful all-in-one systems using this... completely open-source, modifiable Android phones, tablets and stuff. Hopefully AMD and vendors won't also cripple them if this becomes reality :/

Instead of selling RAM modules, AMD should become a full distributor of consumer/specialized Linux devices...

[duby229]

I want to see "mini-PCs", cheap & powerful all-in-one systems using this... completely open-source, modifiable Android phones, tablets and stuff. Hopefully AMD and vendors won't also cripple them if this becomes reality :/

Instead of selling RAM modules, AMD should become a full distributor of consumer/specialized Linux devices...

Oh yeah, I agree 100%

An AMD aarch64 APU platform with a similar chipset they use for their low cost amd64 products. OSS driver support.... Sounds good. Real good.

[dungeon]

Hmmm, something i don't understand quite well Carrizo is Excavator but Carrizo-L is Puma+, is that means radeon driver support for L, but amdgpu for non-L?

Let's go JB

edit: ah OK L is 2nd GCN Sea Islands so radeon, while non-L is the thing 3rd GCN Volcanic Islands

Carrizo-L sounds fine as AM1 update

[haplo602]

I hope somebody will produce an ITX board with the highest speced part soldered on it. I don't care about a socketed version as long as a decent board (integrated wlan/BT/1GB network, 16x PCIe slot, 16GB ram support). I am looking for an all-round living-room PC and that would fit the requirements perfectly.

Otherwise a 4 module socketed version would be nice :-)