AMD CEO confirms Carrizo launch for Q2 2015

Posted on Wednesday, January 21 2015 @ 16:47 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
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FUD Zilla writes AMD CEO Lisa Su confirmed the Carrizo APU is launching in Q2 2015. She made the statement in response to a question by MKM Partners analyst Ian Ing during the company's earnings call on Tuesday. FUD Zilla speculates Q2 2015 probably means a launch around Computex in early June.
There are two Carrizo parts, one for big notebooks and All in Ones called Carrizo and a scaled down version called Carrizo L. We expect that the slower Carrizo-L is first to come but, Lisa was not specific. Carrizo-L is based on Puma+ CPU cores with AMD Radeon R-Series GCN graphics is intended for mainstream configurations with Carrizo targeting the higher performance notebooks.

Usually when a company says that something is coming in Q2 2015 that points to a Computex launch and this Taipei based tradeshow starts on June 2 2015. We strongly believe that the first Carrizo products will showcased at or around this date.

Lisa also pointed out that AMD has "significantly improved performance in battery life in Carrizo." This is definitely good news, as this was one of the main issues with AMD APUs in the notebook space.


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