It's just me or did anyone else find strange a 50% drop in TDP for the same frequency coming from a half-node SOI-less shrink?
I have no clue why my post was gone,it had nothing personal in it(Was about Kabini and Richland)... But hey,we know how moderation works here,don't we
Kabini is really a honey badger .
I agree,maybe late Q2 as best case scenario. It's good to have working early ES but it's far from final product. But it looks like a very good product and nice successor to Bobcat core.What do we know of AMD's launch plans/timeline for Kabini?
CTho9305 was kind enough to point out that AMD announced it had taped out in mid-Oct, and it appears the tapeout went so well that AMD has functional ES from first-silicon.
So realistically they could be looking at launch in Q213. But does that jive with AMD's plans? They don't want to create another Llano-type inventory buildup which Kabini could create for them if they don't get the channels cleared out first.
I agree with your market analysis . But AMD won't abandon the "big core" yet,maybe after 2015 they will reevaluate their startegy
It would make sense if Richland is the last of the "big cores", just so they can cut costs and focus on Kabini and the ARM stuff. It would be dead already if not for the PS4 contract. AMD doesn't want to admit it yet (& the layoffs) because they need the engineers to finish it.
I agree,maybe late Q2 as best case scenario. It's good to have working early ES but it's far from final product. But it looks like a very good product and nice successor to Bobcat core.
The company, according to media reports, cancelled its Steamroller-based performance-mainstream Kaveri APU and substituted it with Richland APU (which features Piledriver x86 cores, but comes with latest-generation Radeon HD GCN cores) made using 32nm SOI process technology.
Playstation 4 is using Thebe-J which hasn't finished yet nor is it related to the Jaguar or Trinity or Kaveri architectures. The only one that is showing any signs of finalization is Xbox's Kryptos which is a >450 mm² chip. To get back on Thebe-J it was delayed from Trinity side-by-side development to Kaveri side-by-side development.That's assuming that the PS4 is using Richland and not Kabini, of course.
Playstation 4 is using Thebe-J which hasn't finished yet nor is it related to the Jaguar or Trinity or Kaveri architectures. The only one that is showing any signs of finalization is Xbox's Kryptos which is a >450 mm² chip. To get back on Thebe-J it was delayed from Trinity side-by-side development to Kaveri side-by-side development.
I assume if they are going to use Jaguar it is going to be in a big.LITTLE formation. Which will have them in a configuration where the Jaguar portion will control all of the system, os, etc stuff that generally isn't compute intensive. While the Thebe portion will control all of the gaming, hpc, etc. stuff that is generally compute intensive. Since, each year the performance part of the Playstation Orbis was upgraded it is safe to assume that they are going for an APU with the specs.How is Thebe Jaguar not related to Jaguar? Did they abort using the jaguar core at some point?
Did you see this xbitlabs article on SR and Richland?
Richland is 32nm SOI HKMG and not 28nm? Is that true or did xbitlabs mess up?