The accelerated processing unit will be based on Steamroller

Aug 9, 2013 06:10 GMT  ·  By

I didn't hold much hope that reports were wrong, but I would still have liked to hear that all those rumors about AMD delaying the Kaveri accelerated processing unit were false.

Sadly, they were not, or so VR-Zone has revealed. The Sunnyvale, California-based company really has pushed the launch of the chip to next year.

Kaveri will be the next generation of laptop accelerated processing units.

They will replace the Kabini and will, later, be replaced by Carizo in turn.

According to the new report, AMD will actually start shipping the FM2+ chips in the fourth quarter of 2013, but sales will only begin “very early” in 2014.

The flagship Kaveri will be a quad-core processor with an advanced "Graphics CoreNext" GPU.