14 DAY TRIAL // Advanced Micro Devices may have released the Kaveri series of accelerated processing units back in January, but not all of them showed up in retail or pre-configured PCs. Now we learn that the one that isn't out got delayed even further.
Advanced Micro Devices made this disclosure pretty late, all told, saying that the AMD A8-7600 was pushed back from the first quarter to the second, when we're already in the second quarter.
We suppose this means that the quad-core accelerated processing unit will be released alongside the cheaper, energy efficient A4-7300 and A6-7400K.
Both those chips are, or will be, dual-core units with 1 MB cache memory, DDR3-1866 memory controllers, 65W TDP (thermal design power), and 192 / 256 stream processors.
The AMD A8-7600 will be a quad-core APU, the last Kaveri quad-core if some people are to be believed.
It should have come out in Q1, seeing as how samples of it made it to reviewers at the same time as the A10-7700K and A10-7800K.
That didn't happen though, and since right now it's April but sweclockers reports that the chip has been delayed, that probably means that launch will happen in late May or June.
Curiously, there are one or two small countries where the A8-7600 should already be shipping. It's not altogether clear which regions those are though. A preliminary search among shopping sites online turned up nothing.
Anyway, the accelerated processing unit has four cores working at 3.1 GHz, normally, but with the ability to jump to 3.8 GHz if the base speed doesn't cut it.
A memory controller is included in the APU, featuring support for DDR3-2133 RAM (short for random access memory).
Moreover, a Radeon HD 8000-series graphics processing unit is included, featuring 384 stream processors (spread over 6 compute units) and a frequency of 654 MHz (720 MHz boost state).
Sweclockers provided a reportedly official statement from AMD, in which it said that the A8-7600 was available to AMD OEMs in Q1 to “ensure” that systems powered by it would go up for sale in April-June.
The price of the 65W AMD A-Series A8-7600 accelerated processing unit should end up at $119, which is more or less the same as €87. Unfortunately, the price in Europe will probably be of €119. Prices of CPUs, graphics cards and many other products usually ship for as many Euro as they do dollars, regardless of exchange rates.