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AMD 2015-2020 roadmaps unveiled

By Koh Wanzi - on 31 Mar 2015, 3:41pm

AMD 2015-2020 roadmaps unveiled

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AMD has revealed its CPU and GPU roadmaps for the next five years at the PC Cluster Consortium event in Osaka, Japan. Despite buzzing in the rumor mill about a potential Samsung acquisition that could result in the shuttering of key businesses, the presentation confirms that the company will continue to develop CPUs, GPUs and APUs for the coming 10 years.

According to the roadmap laid out till 2020, AMD will release new GPU architectures approximately every two years, a release cadence that it already follows now as it moved from Tahiti to Hawaii-based GPUs. However, the roadmap only serves to illustrate the release of updated GPU architectures which will also be incorporated with AMD’s APUs. There was no news about discrete graphics cards, which will probably still adhere to a faster release schedule.

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Furthermore, AMD’s plans for its APUs extend beyond everyday consumers, and it intends to offer APUs for high-performance computing markets by 2017 with a thermal design power of 200 to 300 watts. The company also expects to have APUs capable of multi-TFLOPS performance between 2018 and 2019. In comparison, the current Kaveri APU flagship, the A10-7850K has a max compute of 856 GFLOPS.

Image Source: Kitguru

AMD will also continue the development of its microprocessors without integrated graphics cores, perhaps an indication that it retains confidence in these processors’ abilities to remain competitive. But those hoping for more news on the upcoming release of the R9 300 series graphics cards will be disappointed. AMD did not drop many details on its answer to NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 900 series, nor did it talk much about its next-generation Zen CPU architecture, save that it would feature a technology similar to Intel’s Hyper-Threading.

Source: Kitguru, WCCF Tech

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