According to a fresh report from Chinese VR-Zone site, it appears that AMD will unveil several Kabini APUs in March and brand the FS1b socket as the AM1. The fresh batch of such motherboards were already showcased earlier this month at Consumer Electronics Show 2014 in Las Vegas and made quite a noise considering they actually do not pack a chipset which is integrated within the Kabini APU.


Earlier referred as the FS1b, AMD has decided to brand the socket as the AM1. Since motherboards does not have a chipset, which is integrated into APU itself, the motherboards are quite smaller and have enough room for other slots and components, including the mini-PCIe, as pictured below. Since it integrates the chipset, the APU directly talks to memory, PCI-Express slots, display, SATA interface and any other component on the motherboard.

According to the same report at VR-Zone, the first batch will include two quad- and single dual-core APU, based on Jaguar CPU architecture which should be around 10 percent faster than earlier Bobcat based APUs. The GPU side of the new APUs will be based on Graphics CoreNext architecture.

The lineup includes the A4-5350 and A4-3850, quad-core APUs clocked at 1.6GHz and 1.3GHz, 2MB of L2 cache and 25W TDP, as well as the E1-2650, a dual-core 1.45GHz clocked part with 1MB of L2 cache and same 25W TDP.





Source: VR-Zone.com.