Leaked AMD Processor Roadmap Lists 14nm Processors For 2016
Slides that show the AMD 2015-2016 Desktop and Mobility roadmaps have appeared online, before the company's financial analyst day scheduled for May 6. The slides were hosted on Imgur and as you see below, list the 14nm "Summit Ridge" CPU for the performance desktop segment. The CPU will feature up to eight "Zen" cores and packs no graphics inside. The FM3-socket CPU is due for release next year, according to the slides.
The mainstream desktop segment will be covered by the "Bristol Ridge" SoC, which will have up to 4 Zen CPU cores with next-gen GCN graphics, full HSA 1.0 support, AMD TrueAudio and AMD Secure Processor functionality. Again these chips will fit in motherboards sporting the new FM3 socket.
There is also a dual-core version dubbed "Basilisk." But this one will only be made in the FT4 BGA package, according to the slides.
If the mobility roadmap is accurate, "Bristol Ridge" and "Basilisk" will take over from Carrizo next year. Theit features seems to be th same with their desktop counterparts, butof course, they consume much less power. Mobile versions of "Bristol Ridge "will span 15W-35W thermal envelopes, according to the leak, while "Basilisk" will cover the 5W-15W range.
For the ultra-low power territory (2W), AMD is preparing the "Styx"SoC . which will purportedly feature up to 2 "K12" cores", AMD's custom CPU for the 64-bit ARMv8 instruction set, paired with next-gen GCN graphics. But before Styx (2016), AMD will apparently roll out a quad-core "Amur" APU built with 20-nm tech. The leak indicates that this chip will use off-the-shelf Cortex A57 cores alongside plain-old GCN graphics.