AMD has unveiled more information regarding its upcoming Carrizo and Carrizo-L APUs during CES 2015 show in Las Vegas, including decision not to bring Carrizo APUs to desktop PCs, but rather go against Intel's Broadwell-U chips and be reserved only of the mobile market.


In case you missed it earlier, AMD's Carrizo APUs will be based on quad-core Excavator CPU as well as the next-gen GCN GPU, most likely with the same improvements seen on the AMD Tonga desktop GPU. AMD's Carrizo will be be mostly aimed at mobile markets including ultra-thin notebooks and 2-in-1 convertibles. Although it will most likely see some use in certain AiO desktops, AMD will not follow the same strategy as with Kaveri APUs, as we will not see it in PC desktop environments.

AMD showcased a prototype Carrizo-based notebook during CES 2015 show, which was able to run 4K H.265 video decoding and did well against Intel's Broadwell-based system. According to AMD, Carrizo APUs will be able to match Intel's Broadwell in terms of TDP as well, ranging up to 35W. The lowest TDP will most likely slip down to 5-6W which is a must in case you want to slip that same APU inside a fanless tablet.




Lower TDP market will be reserved to AMD's Carrizo-L APUs, which, although sharing the same platform as the Carrizo APU, will be based on Puma+ CPU cores, rather than Excavator ones. It will be a direct successor of AMD's Beema APUs and coexist with AMD's Mullins SoC aimed at fanless tablets.

According to AMD, both Carrizo and Carrizo-L APUs are expected to ship in mid-2015.

Source: Techreport.com.