Although AMD was quite keen to say that the next-generation APU, codename Kaveri, will launch this year, it appears that it will only be officially announced and even available for some OEMs in December 2013 while retail availability is expected will not begin until mid-February 2014.

Earlier in August, AMD already hinted that Kaveri desktop APUs might be delayed and available in early Q1 2014. In case you missed it earlier, AMD's Kaveri APUs will be based on Steamroller x86 CPU cores and be the first AMD high-performance APUs that will feature "discrete-level" GCN GPU architecture. The Kaveri APUs will also bring TrueAudio support, better DDR3 memory support and PCI-Express 3.0 interface.

The Kaveri APUs will also bring a couple of major heterogeneous computing enhancements and that HSA implementation certainly looks good on paper so we are eager to see it in action.

According to leaked slides from VR-Zone, AMD will officially announce the chips on December 5th 2013 and should ship some chips to OEMs by late-December 2013. Unfortunately, there will not appear in retail channel before mid-February 2014.

While most motherboard vendors have already announced their AMD socket FM2+ A88X chipset based motherboards but it looks like these will have to wait a bit longer before Kaveri APUs will be ready for them.





Source: VR-Zone.com.