Future Tech: AMD Updates Product Roadmap or 2014 and 2015

Updated: August 29, 2013

It seems that AMD has released yet more information on their product roadmap for 2014 set to release its Hawaii-based GPUs at the end of September, Kaveri-based APUs for the high-end segment and Kabini-based APUs for the entry-level segment in the first quarter of 2014.

This news comes by way of an upstream supply chain doing business with AMD so it should hold true. AMD themselves are still a bit tight lipped on the subject, but that is to be expected when asked questions they are not yet ready to answer.

The Kabini-based APUs will adopt the Socket ST3 for notebook applications and the Socket FS1B for desktop applications. The APUs will enter mass production in February 2014 and be announced in March 2014. The Kabini-based APUs will have power consumption of 25W and AMD will release two quad-core models, A4-5350 and A4-5150, as well as a dual-core model E1-2650.

It does seem as if AMD will shift its focus off of the FX line and regulate their efforts to focus more on the APU side of things where AMD actually still can maintain a lead. I have also noticed that many motherboard manufactures are making and developing more AMD platform boards that they have in the last few years.

Inside sources in the industry are claiming the Kabini-based APUs for desktop applications are expected to launch in March 2014. Kabini’s successor, which is called Beema is projected to be launched in the second half of 2014 or the first half of 2015, adopting the FS1B socket and Heterogeneous Systems Architecture (HSA). AMD’s FM1 and AM3 sockets will start phasing out in mid-2013 and the end of 2013, respectively.

By the end of 2013, Socket AM3+ processors will account for 30% of AMD’s total processor shipments, while Socket FM2-based processors will account for the remaining 70%. For AMD fans this is all great news as those users always looking to get the most bang for their buck always look to AMD to fill that niche, and AMD usually responds in kind, albeit the FX 9590 that was priced like the King’s private jewels.

In farther out news like in 2015 we see AMD desktop plans to include AMD’s latest Carrizo-based APUs, featuring Excavator architecture with two power consumption specifications: 45W and 65W. The company will also release Nolan to replace Beema by that time frame. It seems as if AMD will continue to keep on trying to find themselves the “sweet spot” in the PC industry and we here at Tech of Tomorrow wish AMD the absolute best and hope they can keep on being a competitive force in this industry.

AMD has been and hopefully will always maintain their place as the affordable go to company when you need something that works, but don’t need a high price tag attached to it. Thanks for reading everybody, we enjoy your input and comments and want to hear what you have to say on this subject. AMD is far from dead and hopefully we will see more from the underdog in the coming months ahead.

Source: AMD Overclock.net

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Tony Boeldt

So does this mean no Steamroller FX CPUs? That sucks.
- Jeremiah M. Dean
  
  Notice there is no “+” symbol after AM3. People are reading into things way to much… I’m sure we’ll see another AM3+ CPU, I just doubt it’ll have the “FX” name strapped to it. Due to bad press.
  - Elric Phares
    
    Quite possibly true, they are not answering as of yet.
    - Sandy Bruce
      
      An Earlier rumor suggested an AM4 socket for the next FX chip. You got 2 CPU Generations in AM3+, its time to move on so we can get un upgraded chipset. 990fx is outdated. New socket new Chipset = Better AMD performance., Lets go!
      - Jeremiah M. Dean
        
        Everything is so tight lipped right now. But considering G. Skill is planning on launching DDR4, I think we may just see a AM4 socket. I think like AMD earlier stated, there will be a new socket, but you will be able to fit a SteamRoller CPU onto a AM3+ socket.
        
        I’d like a new socket personally… I’m willing to shell out on a new motherboard, but for all the people that upgraded to 990FX for the reason of being told they would be able to support steamroller, I hope they get what they were promised.
        
        With the new Gigabyte Sniper and UD4 FM2+ mobo’s, I think we might just see some High End APUs comming. We’ll see what AMD does next. All I’m waiting for is a 8 core steamroller chip.
      - NarooN
        
        I don’t think there will be a socket AM4. AMD has said that they plan to move to a unified socket at some point, and that will most likely be either FM2+ or FM3. They also said that at some point they plan to become an APU-only company, but specifically said they would only do that when most software supports that (HSA).
        
        We have been seeing a lot of high-end FM2+ boards being revealed by companies like AsRock, ASUS, and others in the past couple of months, which is unusual to say the least. It’s possible that we may see the FX line appear on FM2+. I don’t see them making a new socket until DDR4 becomes mainstream. That socket would probably be unified as well.
        
        We’ll see for sure when AMD releases their new roadmaps to the public in a month or so.
      - Sandy Bruce
        
        An all APU company can still have high end cpus. They already have an APU Opteron. The last roadmap showed an APU FX type cpu in a different section then the FM2 based APUs. They have to have a new socket for this. They may be heading for that in the future but it wont be this generation of chips. The only way they can do that now would be to exit the high end segment which would be a disaster to investor confidence.
      - NarooN
        
        The non-APU segment of the market is responsible for around 30% of AMD’s revenue, so they won’t be getting rid of FX I think. The fate of AM3+ is certainly looking grim.
        
        FM2+ could very well get FX-style chips. They already have been doing Athlon’s on both FM1 and FM2 which were just APU silicon that had the iGPU disabled. The fact that there are high-end boards like the G1.Sniper available for FM2+ seem to point that there is a bright future for the platform.
        
        Enthusiasts as we both know come in all sorts of flavors. Some will have fun taking Kaveri and seeing how far they can push it (like me but others will want more cores available. Remember that slide from an AMD document that listed a 3M/6T Kaveri part with GDDR5 support? Maybe later in 2014 there will be a three module APU part, the A12 or something. Don’t know how they would fit it on the die, though, which makes me think we will see that with Excavator.
        
        Excavator would be a die-shrink to 20/22nm — that, combined with HDL (high-density libraries) could enable them to have possibly four modules on the die with a beefy GPU as well. That would be an ultimate enthusiast product. This is why the rumors of Steamroller FX being the last CPU-only part actually make sense. Why have a CPU-only part when there would be an octocore APU with beast graphics? It would be awesome.
      - Sandy Bruce
        
        We are def on the same page. I look forward to the AMD future. They will not abandon the high end market. It would waving a white flag and investors will bail out causing the company to crumble. Push forward AMD we love you!
  - doctorpankake
    
    Phenom III
- Jonas Bjären
  
  I’m pretty sure AMD will release a FX branded Steamroller CPU for AM3+, but only a single 8-core model and/or hopefully a 12core ?
  
  AMD are good guys, so I’m optimistic that they will please AMD fans eventually.
  - doctorpankake
    
    Going 12 core would be overkill. Both consoles use an 8 core AMD chip, so it would be smart to just stay where they are (at 8) and focus on other improvements instead. Lowering costs, temps, power draw, physical size, etc are all things that can be improved with ANY chip.
    - Lx24
      
      8 cores were also overkill at the time they released these chips, but there just is no point for something like that just yet.
      - doctorpankake
        
        Some could say 8 is STILL overkill. We won’t see massive support until early 2014 when the new consoles launch.
    - Erik Hiebert
      
      Well, when I was cruising through information on the upcoming steamroller FX-9450 and 9650, I came across someone who said there was a leak of a 6-core APU that should be hitting the market in 2014… keeping in mind thus far APUs have been half the cores of their FX counterparts, a 12-core FX CPU *might* be in the works. That would be the greatest thing ever and would probably future proof my PC for like… 6 years. Though I imagine they’d charge a lot if it did exist, after seeing the FX-9590 stunt they pulled
      - doctorpankake
        
        AMD never confirmed names for Steamroller stuff yet
Troy Smith

cant wait for the Hawaii GPU 9970 num num
- connor
  
  too bad im broke
cemerian

i hope they dont drop FX line, otherwise core i5 here i come
TheMetalSgt

I like AMD where they are. The FX 8350 is affordable and kills even the i7 in some (but few) multithreaded tasks (see streaming games), and although isn’t the best performer on benchmarks, in the real world it does just fine for it’s price. The lineup is also highly upgradable unlike Intel where every other year the entire chipset switches and you need a new Mobo if you wanna upgrade. So I wouldn’t mind if they stayed at AM3. But if they move to AM4 I can be assured they will be there for awhile which makes it worth the upgrade.
- Erik Hiebert
  
  From everything I’ve heard, AMD wants the upcoming FX processors to compete with Intel in terms of performance, rather than being at a competitive price. To the best of my knowledge, they’re pricing the upcoming FX-9450 and FX-9650 against the 3770K and 3930K to reflect their multi-threaded performance.
  Hoping this is not true, since its single-threaded performance is around Sandy Bridge and power consumption is just slightly better than Vishera since they’re overclocking the 9450s and 9650s out of the box (comparable to the rebinned 9370s and 9590s), also meaning less OC headroom.
  This is all speculation/rumour at this point, though. Like I said, hoping this is not true (google search FX-9650 to find articles/discussions on the topic)
Alex Jarvis

amd needs to understand its quality over quantity. Just because there is more cores doesn’t mean the cpu is better.
- Ben
  
  But if you look at a comparison. AMD CPUs are slightly lower performance than the same level intel ones but are way cheaper
i just want to know

i have a AMD athlon(tm) II x4 640 processor is it good ?? i have 3ghz no overlock
- Lx24
  
  It’s decent, overclocks to about 3.6-3.9GHz if you got a good sample and would wish to do so, later.
  Runs most games fine, should be run with a GTX 760, 660 Ti, 670, HD 7870/7950 or below.
  - robert
    
    i have geforce gtx 650 2gb
Thee Grim One

I just hope us A85 owners will be able to use the new CPU’s, i really dont want to have to upgrade to another M/B.
Qusai

So the 9970 is not coming out this september?
Genzo

I like the FX 8350 but i want to see AMD push its single threaded performance.
APUs are nice. But we want to see your cpu that has better single threaded performance and can be on par with intel mainstream i7
is this hard to do

how do i overclock my cpu amd athlon II x4 640