Why did AMD stop making FirePro APUs?

[cbn]

Remember the Trinity based FirePro APUs?

Does anyone know why AMD never made Kaveri, Carrizo or Bristol Ridge desktop or mobile (35W) versions? (The concept seemed like a very good idea)

P.S. Apparently none of the OEMs made a complete workstation using the Triniy based FirePro APUs (that I can find), but Sapphire did make a motherboard with ISV certification---> http://www.legitreviews.com/sapphir...platform-with-amd-a320a300-firepro-apus_14016

 

[NTMBK]

I'm honestly surprised that they never pushed this further in mobile. Small, affordable APU laptops with certified graphics drivers that are guaranteed to work correctly on professional software? Sounds like an obvious win.

 

[amd6502]

In what way would this be an advantage over A series on fm2 or am4?

They do have PRO A series models, and yes the AM4 based A series do have good DP ability.

There are also obscure Carrizo BGA variants for those not wanting to go with a standard socket:

http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Bulldozer/AMD-G-Series GX-420GI.html

https://www.anandtech.com/show/9726...d-rseries-apus-for-embedded-with-ddr4-support

For GPU compute servers I believe some APUs are in the works. It makes sense they're waiting for Zen products here. Only 4 cpu threads on BR wouldn't be popular. (I don't think puma opterons were too popular either.)

 

[amd6502]

I'm honestly surprised that they never pushed this further in mobile. Small, affordable APU laptops with certified graphics drivers that are guaranteed to work correctly on professional software? Sounds like an obvious win.

They always seem behind with drivers.

 

[cbn]

I'm honestly surprised that they never pushed this further in mobile. Small, affordable APU laptops with certified graphics drivers that are guaranteed to work correctly on professional software? Sounds like an obvious win.

Yep, I really like that idea too.

......and I'm thinking a 35W FirePro APU mobile Workstation might also help pave the way for a 35W Consumer APU (non-dGPU) laptop as well (which I think would be a first since Richland APU mobile).

P.S. Here are the current Nvidia mobile quadros:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/quadro-for-mobile-workstations.html

And here is a current workstation using the 15W Core i7-7600U and the 25W Quadro M520:

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-ThinkPad-P51s-Core-i7-4K-Workstation-Review.226638.0.html

Notice the Quadro M520 is actually a Maxwell design. (A mobile Quadro based on the Pascal GP108 die is not listed on the Nvidia website yet)

 

[SpaceBeer]

Zen based APU with certified IGP would be great for mobile/SFF/AiO workstations. 4c(8t) CPUs and IGPs with~10 CUs with DDR4 is more than enough for various CAD tasks. It's be more or less the same as WX 3100. I would really like to see that and would probably buy such notebook.