AMD E Series 2012

[eastmen]

We've already covered AMD's premium Trinity processors, but today the company got specific about what we can expect from its more price-conscious E-Series chips. These are the 1.4GHz E1-1200 and the 1.7GHz E2-1800 -- both dual-core Bobcat APUs that bring a range of improvements over last year's E-series, and which are intended for sub-$600 laptops plus perhaps the odd nettop. Despite having slightly higher clock speeds than their predecessors, the new models consume the familiar 18W TDP and still manage to claim a battery life in excess of 11 hours with Windows in idle, or around four hours of solid flash gaming (as unhealthy as that sounds).

On the graphics side, the APUs contain updated Radeon HD 7000 series GPUs, which makes them DirectX 11 capable and also compatible with OpenCL 1.1, thus allowing certain software titles to use the GPU for computation tasks. Other improvements include integrated support for SATA III 6Gb/s, USB 3.0 and SD card readers, plus HTML 5 acceleration and Metro UI optimization for Windows 8. As for what distinguishes the two options: the E1-1200 can only take DDR3-1066 memory and its GPU is clocked at 500MHz, whereas the E2-1800 can take speedier DDR3-1333 memory and deliver a maximum GPU clock speed of 680MHz. Check out the slide deck below for more detail, and expect availability info to be added here very soon.

http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/05/amd-e-series/

More at the link.

I'm really disapoint in AMD . They are still on Bobcat . It would have been great to see something with jaguar and at higher speeds. It also doesn't seem to have updated C level chips from them , so it means they will get lapped again in tablets by intel. It seems like AMD simply can't get anything right.

 

[itsmydamnation]

http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/05/amd-e-series/

More at the link.

I'm really disapoint in AMD . They are still on Bobcat . It would have been great to see something with jaguar and at higher speeds. It also doesn't seem to have updated C level chips from them , so it means they will get lapped again in tablets by intel. It seems like AMD simply can't get anything right.

lapped again by intel in tablets? what a garbage statement topped off with hyperbole, Atom has never had a fun time again bobcat. AMD are relesing Hondo for win 8. Sure its still 40nm but then again its not like there 32/28nm capacity just lying about waiting to be used.

At 5 watts its not trying to hit all the markets Atom does but unless Atom has had a masive clock bump and IPC imporvements its not going to look awesome at low thread counts. Then theres actually deliving what OEM's and the Market want for a product, thats why you offen see the less technically compitant product winning in the market. Win 8 on tablet is a massive gamble anyway.


28nm parts are coming the road map has been very clear since Rory took over, i dont know why your having a cry now.

 

[mczak]

I'm really disapoint in AMD . They are still on Bobcat . It would have been great to see something with jaguar and at higher speeds.

Well this was expected with the cancellation of Krishna/Wichita. Those "new" E-series apus probably still are the exact same stepping. At least the platform gets USB 3.0 (it's not actually a new FCH neither, just new for this platform).
Jaguar always was a 2013 timeframe product - some suggest it might have been pulled in a bit due to Krishna/Wichita cancellation, in any case it should be a more substantial update than what Krishna/Wichita would have been (which afaik mostly was more - up to 4 - cores plus integrated FCH on 28nm). Should even feature GCN graphics.

 

[eastmen]

Well this was expected with the cancellation of Krishna/Wichita. Those "new" E-series apus probably still are the exact same stepping. At least the platform gets USB 3.0 (it's not actually a new FCH neither, just new for this platform).
Jaguar always was a 2013 timeframe product - some suggest it might have been pulled in a bit due to Krishna/Wichita cancellation, in any case it should be a more substantial update than what Krishna/Wichita would have been (which afaik mostly was more - up to 4 - cores plus integrated FCH on 28nm). Should even feature GCN graphics.

The real problem is them not linking up with windows 8 launch. They will miss all the launch hype around the new platform