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I think it took almost 200W for Piledriver to hit 5GHz (well, maybe 100W for the boosting core and the rest for the uncore and other 7 cores). Even with the advancements, I don't think this is doable at ultra low power.
Following the news today on the new R1000 (and V1000 series), it's starting to look like there will be an upcoming native dual core APU die (either now, or about 6 months down the road), based on Picasso. This should be Zen+ ~100mm2 group of products, optimized to address the ~10W market (from 6W to 15W).
At 2c/4t it should be a little more capable than BR at CPU tasks, but have only well under half the GPU perf of BR. Should have almost 3B transistors (vs 1.2B for Stoney and 3.1B for BR) and so it should still cost significantly more to produce than Stoney yet not too significantly more than BR (which is why Stoney remains in production while BR probably does not).
Lower production costs to the point of recovering development costs and product premiums would be needed to justify an FDX alternative positioned below Picasso-L. I think a 4 thread Stoney++ on 22FDX could still possibly do that, but the odds of seeing this in the future appear to be low.
Following the news today on the new R1000 (and V1000 series), it's starting to look like there will be an upcoming native dual core APU die (either now, or about 6 months down the road), based on Picasso. This should be Zen+ ~100mm2 group of products, optimized to address the ~10W market (from 6W to 15W).
At 2c/4t it should be a little more capable than BR at CPU tasks, but have only well under half the GPU perf of BR. Should have almost 3B transistors (vs 1.2B for Stoney and 3.1B for BR) and so it should still cost significantly more to produce than Stoney yet not too significantly more than BR (which is why Stoney remains in production while BR probably does not).
Lower production costs to the point of recovering development costs and product premiums would be needed to justify an FDX alternative positioned below Picasso-L. I think a 4 thread Stoney++ on 22FDX could still possibly do that, but the odds of seeing this in the future appear to be low.
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