So far we are about one month from Computex 2014 and hardware manufacturers are already gearing up for what might be the most important exhibition of the year regarding IT components. AMD has now launched seven new APUs which are based on Puma architecture, the Beema and Mullins APUs.

Concering their Puma Architecture, AMD is especially proud of the fact that they have increased efficiency once more. Compared to the predecessor, AMD says that the performance as well as the power consumption should be significantly better.

In case of their new design AMD has for instance been working on optimizing leakage, which in the end always leads to lower power consumption and higher headroom in terms of frequency scaling. AMD claims to have reduced leakage by a whopping 20 percent, which left them with the option of increasing clocks speed by up to 400 MHz. Even with that frequency boost they manage to get a lower thermal design power.

What appears to be even more impressive concerns the integrated graphics unit. Still based on AMDs recent Graphics Core Next architecture, the improvements regarding leakage lead to a power consumption that has been lowered by no less than 38 percent, according to AMD. If we keep in mind that AMD is still using 28 nanometer manufacturing process, this seems to be quite an achievement but on the other hand, AMD has to push the boundries of this technology like "MAD" in order to remain competitive.

Following a list of all new models:

Model	Cores	CPU Freq	L2 Cache	GPU	Shader	GPU Freq	DDR3	SDP/TDP
A10 Micro-6700T	4	1.2/2.2GHz	2MB	Radeon R6	128	500MHz	1333MHz	2.8/4.5W
A4 Micro-6400T	4	1.0/1.6GHz	2MB	Radeon R3	128	350MHz	1333MHz	2.8/4.5W
E1 Micro-6200T	2	1.0/1.4GHz	1MB	Radeon R2	128	300MHz	1066MHz	2.8/3.95W
A6-6310	4	2.0/2.4GHz	2MB	Radeon R4	128	800MHz	1866MHz	15W
A4-6210	4	1.8/-GHz	2MB	Radeon R3	128	600MHz	1600MHz	15W
E2-6110	4	1.50/-GHz	2MB	Radeon R2	128	500MHz	1600MHz	15W
E1-6010	2	1.35/-GHz	1MB	Radeon R2	128	350MHz	1333MHz	10W

In terms of availability these new APUs should start shipping next week built-in with upcoming notebooks from partners. This is quite an usual scenario for AMD these days, since also with the last generation of low-power APU the company introduced new chips in the same way.




Source: AMD