AMD Mobile “Carrizo” Family of APUs: A Significant Leap in Performance and Energy Efficiency

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As part of AMD’s 2015 AMD Mobile APU family roadmap, the company AMD today at its Future of Compute event announced the addition of its first high performance system-on-a-chip (SoC), codenamed “Carrizo”, and a mainstream SoC codenamed “Carrizo-L.”

These new 2015 AMD Mobile APUs are designed as complete solutions for gaming, productivity applications, and ultra high-definition 4K experiences in collaboration with hardware and software partners. With support for Microsoft DirectX 12, OpenCL 2.0, AMD’s Mantle API, AMD FreeSync and support for Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 10 operating system, the 2015 AMD Mobile APU family enables the experiences consumers expect.

John Byrne, senior vice president and general manager, Computing and Graphics business group of AMD said  they will continue to innovate and build upon their existing IP to deliver great products for their  customers.  “AMD’s commitment to graphics and compute performance, as expressed by our goal to improve APU energy efficiency 25x by 2020, combines with the latest industry standards and fresh innovation to drive the design of the 2015 AMD Mobile APU family. We are excited about the experiences these new APUs will bring and look forward to sharing more details in the first half of next year” he adds.

The flagship “Carrizo” processor will integrate the new x86 CPU core codenamed “Excavator” with next generation AMD Radeon graphics in the world’s first Heterogeneous Systems Architecture (HSA) 1.0 compliant SoC. The “Carrizo-L” SoC integrates the CPU codenamed “Puma+” with AMD Radeon R-Series GCN GPUs and is intended for mainstream configurations.

In addition, an AMD Secure Processor will be integrated into the “Carrizo” and “Carrizo-L” APUs, enabling ARM TrustZone across the entire family for the security commercial customers and consumers expect. Utilizing a single package infrastructure for “Carrizo” and “Carrizo-L,” the 2015 AMD Mobile APU family simplifies partner designs across a broad range of commercial and consumer mobile systems.

“Carrizo” and “Carrizo-L,” are scheduled to ship in 1H 2015, with laptop and All-in-One systems based on the 2015 AMD Mobile APU family expected in market by mid-year 2015.
View video of AMD’s John Byrne introducing the “Carrizo” coden, amed APU

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