Items tagged with carrizo

by Brandon Hill - Tue, Aug 11, 2015

AMD Carrizo-Based A-Series Powered Laptops From HP Now Shipping

We gave you a detailed introduction to AMD’s sixth generation A-Series (Carrizo) APU back in early June. Carrizo is taking direct aim at Intel in the notebook market, specifically targeting the mid-range ultrabook market and Intel’s bread and butter mobile Core i5 processors. Under the surface, the 28nm... Read more...

by Brandon Hill - Tue, Feb 24, 2015

AMD Carrizo APU With Excavator Core Architecture Targets Higher Efficiency, Longer Battery Life

AMD first started dishing out details on Carrizo, the successor to Kaveri, during the closing months of 2014. AMD is claiming that Carrizo, which is still built on Global Foundries’ 28nm Super High Performance (28SHP) process node like its predecessor, will nonetheless deliver huge advances in both performance and... Read more...

by Joel Hruska - Wed, Jan 07, 2015

AMD At CES: FreeSync Monitors, Carrizo Mobile APU Front And Center

CES is the time of year when computing companies of every type show off their next-generation hardware, and AMD is no exception. Hot Hardware sat down with the Sunnyvale-based company to talk about its major plans for 2015 in both gaming and the CPU side of the business. In gaming, the big news of the event is the... Read more...

by Marco Chiappetta - Fri, Nov 21, 2014

AMD Updates Carrizo APU Roadmap, Announces New Mantle, FreeSync Partners

AMD's Future of Compute event was this week and the company has made a number of announcements regarding new technology and the future of its HSA, Mantle, and FreeSync projects. First up, there's Carrizo, AMD's upcoming follow-on to Kaveri and the first chip to use its "Excavator" CPU cores. AMD is projecting that... Read more...