AMD's engineering samples of Kaveri APUs have apparently started to find their way to OEMs so it does not come as a surprise that we can now see the first picture of the chip while we also expect more details to leak out pretty soon.

Set to be officially launched at CES on January 7th next year, with retail availability in February, AMD's Kaveri APUs will use use A88X chipset and a new FM2+ socket, have support for AMD Mantle API, OpenGL 4.3 and it is actually the first APU to have AMD's Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) support. 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.

Unfortunately, it is not clear if the sample picture by VR-Zone is actually the A8 or the A10 version but it does not really matter as we are sure that much more important details will show up pretty soon.

Earlier, AMD also noted that it will talk a bit more about AMD Kaveri APUs and probably officially announce it, during its AMD APU'13 conference scheduled to kick off on November 11th in San Jose, CA.





Source: VR-Zone.com.