and already the first interesting thing I didn't know, that it was originally planned as a hexacore. That might explain the overly cautious deployment in lower end devices than appropriate for the incredible performance.
They were speaking of ultrathin laptops there, so I undestand that only SKUs for U-series would go up to 6 cores, even if the die was an 8-core. As for the laptops being 'lower end'- that is probably due to AMD's image in laptops, and selling power when it comes to laptop buyers, as well as very few financial 'incentives' from AMD to make premium devices. Still, Renoir is not present only in very high end (but should be soon- with MS device(s)). But there are not that many entry tier devices with Renoir either. Most are right at the midrange/the sweet spot.
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frbeckenbauer - Monday, August 17, 2020 - link
and already the first interesting thing I didn't know, that it was originally planned as a hexacore. That might explain the overly cautious deployment in lower end devices than appropriate for the incredible performance.neblogai - Monday, August 17, 2020 - link
They were speaking of ultrathin laptops there, so I undestand that only SKUs for U-series would go up to 6 cores, even if the die was an 8-core.As for the laptops being 'lower end'- that is probably due to AMD's image in laptops, and selling power when it comes to laptop buyers, as well as very few financial 'incentives' from AMD to make premium devices. Still, Renoir is not present only in very high end (but should be soon- with MS device(s)). But there are not that many entry tier devices with Renoir either. Most are right at the midrange/the sweet spot.
RollingCamel - Wednesday, August 19, 2020 - link
AMD 10-K annual report specifies that 2019 growth was driven by a 22% increase in average unit price and an increase of 4% in units shipment.brantron - Monday, August 17, 2020 - link
I had wondered about that. Hexacore with a single core complex and larger L3 cache at least sounded better on paper.But turns out it's fine the way it is. Desktop Renoir at high clocks will be hard to tell apart from anything else, a first for AMD's APUs.
Probably some benefit to mass producing one die for everything, as well.
scineram - Tuesday, August 18, 2020 - link
My reading of the Q&A is it was always this die, but they expected to only enable 6 cores.JayNor - Monday, August 17, 2020 - link
Is there some difference in meaning between the white decode and orange decode info in the next gen multimedia slide at 3:22?Ian Cutress - Monday, August 17, 2020 - link
orange = 4kkenansadhu - Tuesday, August 18, 2020 - link
Any news on Zen 3 mobile? Is it going to launch anytime soon?yeeeeman - Tuesday, August 18, 2020 - link
nopeshabby - Tuesday, August 18, 2020 - link
Zen 2 mobile just launched, maybe next year.ksec - Tuesday, August 18, 2020 - link
Reading this after POWER 10 and Z makes it much less interesting. I guess the most interesting part of AMD is Zen 3... hopefully soon.clsmithj - Tuesday, August 18, 2020 - link
I hope we get desktop Renoir retail APUs soon.I want to see if motherboard manufactures release new BIOS revisions to support it.