14 DAY TRIAL // Having discovered the two Temash accelerated processing units already, we don't find it hard to believe that Advanced Micro Devices might be far enough along in its Kaveri and Kabini development to ship those as well.
We aren't the only ones who think so either, and it's all because of a photograph published via a certain social networking website called Twitter.
Included up on the left, the picture shows a prototype PC board with installed microprocessor and cooler.
It was posted by Johan Andersson, technical director of Frostbite at EA Digital Illusions CE (EA DICE), a Sweden-based computer game developer owned by Electronic Arts.
Described as AMD’s “next generation APU” development system, it may have a Kabini or a Kaveri accelerated processing unit.
Given that Kaveri chips are only supposed to arrive on the market in late 2013, we are tempted to believe the Kabini is used instead.
A pity, seeing as how Kaveri is clearly stronger, with its up to four high-performance Steamroller x86 cores and integrated AMD Radeon HD 7000/GCN graphics processor.
The four, low-power Jaguar x86 cores are relatively tame in comparison, although the GPU range, at least, seems to be on the same level (AMD Radeon HD 7000/GCN graphics core).
Kabini will be launched in June, at the same time as Temash, that’s why we think the photo is an image of a system based on it.
In any case, the heterogeneous system architecture (HSA) will make sure the CPU and GPU cores work well together, better than on existing processors.
Advanced Micro Devices did not comment on any of this since, like all other companies, it prefers to keep silent about unannounced products.
Then again, Richland PC accelerated processing units are set to release this month, so those will take up most of the attention of AMD fans.