While there have been rumors that Kaveri APUs might be delayed due to the fact that mass production of these APUs has not started yet, the same report from Digitimes also revealed some new codenames in the AMD 2015 APU lineup, including the Carizo and Nolan.

AMD's Kaveri APUs, scheduled to arrive by the end of this or early next year are based on AMD's Steamroller CPU architecture paired up with GPU based on Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture and will offer quite more performance when compared to Trinity or recently introduced Richland APUs. The AMD Kaveri APUs will also be the first APUs that will feature HUMA/HSA (Heterogeneous System Architecture) which will feature unified memory architecture or simply allow the CPU and GPU to share the system memory.

According to the report from Digitimes, in first half of 2014, AMD plans to release two new HSA based APUs, including Berlin for server market and Beema APUs that will replace the existing Kabini APU series. In 2015, AMD will release Carizo and Nolan APUs that will replace Kaveri and Beema APUs, both with HSA.

Unfortunately, it is still unknown on which actual CPU and GPU architectures would Carizo be based on, but judging from the timeframe, AMD should be ready with the Excavator CPU architecture and even the new GPU architecture. Of course, Carizo could easily end up with a Steamroller refresh and AMD might go the same path it took when it launched Richland APUs, a refresh of Trinity.

On the other part of the market, Nolan APUs will replace the Beema, which should show up to replace Kabini APUs sometimes next year. It should be based on enhanced Jaguar CPU cores paired up with GCN 2.0 cores and HSA support. The low-power part of the market will also get the Mullins APU which should replace current Temash APU.

It looks like 2014 and 2015 will be quite interesting for AMD as HSA will finally get in most if not all APUs.








Source: WCCFTech.