Not seeing how you made the cognitive jump to broadwell e from, what essentially is a mobile part.I hate to do it but I might have to.I was trying to wait for Bristol Ridge but since its a no show I might have to go Skylake or Broadwell-E now
Given this news, I wouldn't be surprised if AMD goes all in on mobile computing and exits the enthusiast/consumer desktop altogether.
Oh good, I still have an account on this forum... I am as disappointed as everyone else that the speculation of both a March and June launch for AM4+BR has fallen through. My personal predicament is that I planned to have a nice cool 65W excavator APU by the time the summer heat arrived.
My point is they keep giving us a line of bull. First it was Zen would be out end of 2015, then first quarter 2016, then 2nd quarter 2016 and now at the end of the year 2016. No duh there bleeding money left and right,they dont have anything left worthwhile to sell.
Its a long while between now and the end of the year.
According to Heise (c't mag publisher), AM4 boards go to priority OEMs first (and do so for a while now):
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meld...PC-Hersteller-bereits-verfuegbar-3225096.html
If they targeted July 2016 launch, they would surly have something to show at computex...
Then ZEN APUs are 2018
If they targeted July 2016 launch, they would surly have something to show at computex...
Interesting. A leak a while back showed Bristol Ridge AM4 (FM3 at the time) coming in July 2016. We may see Bristol Ridge for desktop next month.
AMD already supplies wholesale the AM4 variant of Bristol Ridge CPUs. PC hobbyist, however, wait until end of the year until they can buy the processors and suitable motherboards.
If this is true, AMD want to release Bristol Ridge along side Zen? Where's the benefit in that if they're already prepared to provide OEMs right now?