AMD has Carrizo-apu revealed that next year in laptops and hybrid systems, to appear. It is going to be the first soc with full support for the Heterogeneous System Architecture. Also, there is a beveiligingsprocessor on the basis of ARM’s trustzone.
Carrizo is built around the new Excavator cores which are especially more fuel-efficient than the Steamroller cores from the current Kaveri-apus. The graphic computing power gets an upgrade in the form of a new Graphics Core Next gpu, which provides support to both Mantle as DirectX 12. Also, the gpu is Dual Graphics support: the ability to use the graphical processing power of the integrated gpu to be combined with that of a dedicated video card. Previously called Hybrid Crossfire.
Carrizo combines the apu and the southbridge on a single die and according to AMD it is also the first apu with full support for AMD’s Heterogeneous System Architecture or HSA. Allows the software, for example, the cpu and gpu more as a whole approach, and can the cpu and gpu, in their turn, to share memory. Incidentally, supports Kaveri also HSA a great extent.
AMD makes further mention of a Secure Processor support for ARM’s Trustzone platform to Carrizo. AMD provides a hardware-based and yet economical security platform to its apus. AMD has licensed ARM designs, and experimenting there for a long time, even for server chips.
The-up chip designer did the information from the paintings during the Future of Compute event in Singapore. According to the site Lowyat, who was present, announced AMD there is also a Carrizo-L, that the mainstream market would focus and Puma+cores. The first systems with Carrizo to midway through 2015 appear.
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