Posted on Monday, January 14 2019 @ 14:03 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
AnandTech
received confirmation from AMD that the company will not use its chiplet design to create an APU variant of its Zen 2-based Matisse processor. There was some speculation that AMD could create an APU with one processor chiplet and one GPU chiplet, but AMD confirmed this will not be the case. Or, at least not for this generation:
AMD stated that, at this time, there will be no version of the current Matisse chiplet layout where one of those chiplets will be graphics. We were told that there will be Zen 2 processors with integrated graphics, presumably coming out much later after the desktop processors, but built in a different design. Ultimately APUs are both mobile first as well as lower cost parts (usually), so different design decisions will have to be made in order to support that market.
AMD also said the TDP range of Matisse will be the same as the current Ryzen 2000 lineup.
