This is the first sighting of the accelerated processing unit

May 20, 2013 07:21 GMT  ·  By

Just like an HP notebook specification sheet has revealed the traits of several AMD APUs, an MSI motherboard CPU support list has named a chip called A8-6500B.

The name of the mainboard from Micro-Star International is MSI FM2-A75IA-E53.

The A8-6500B is a Richland processor with four cores, 4 MB of L2 cache memory and a TDP (thermal design power) of 65W.

The clock speed is of 3.5 GHz. The Turbo Core frequency, sadly, is not available at this time.

A8-6500B is based on the A1 Richland stepping and bears the part number AD650BOKA44HL.

Naturally, this being a Richland processor, the newcomer has integrated Radeon graphics. Which Radeon GPU remains unclear though.

The A8-6500B is a business-class APU (hence the B in the name). It is possible that it won't sell standalone at all, but as part of pre-made office PCs.