Original Link: https://www.anandtech.com/show/10390/computex-2016-amd-press-conference-live-blog
Computex 2016: AMD Press Conference Live Blog
by Ian Cutress on May 31, 2016 9:58 PM EST- Posted in
- AMD
- GPUs
- Computex_2016
11:05PM EDT - I'll wrap it up here, write up the Q&A later if something new is said.
11:00PM EDT - Now for a photo and a QnA
10:59PM EDT - Now a video on Zen
10:59PM EDT - (all anyone is going to see is a generic PC)
10:59PM EDT - Zen boxes just off stage
10:59PM EDT - 'I could not be more proud of the engineers at AMD'
10:58PM EDT - Zen is alive and on track
10:58PM EDT - 7th Gen shipping today
10:58PM EDT - RX 480 on sale June 29th
10:57PM EDT - 'You thought 2016 was good so far? You haven't seen anything yet'
10:57PM EDT - Will have to wait a few months for something more
10:57PM EDT - Very early in bringup
10:57PM EDT - Embedded is important too
10:57PM EDT - 8th Gen notebook will be Zen
10:56PM EDT - Server samples to high profile customers in weeks, wider sampling in 3rd Quarter
10:56PM EDT - Obviously an engineering sample
10:55PM EDT - 8C/16T, AM4 Desktop, 40% more IPC
10:55PM EDT - Summit Ridge APU, video was on Zen silicon
10:54PM EDT - There's a chip on stage
10:53PM EDT - (early pre-alpha is my addition, I assume)
10:53PM EDT - Tapeout earlier this year, early pre-alpha qualification
10:53PM EDT - The industry needed a new high performance CPU
10:53PM EDT - Zen
10:52PM EDT - OK one more thing being discussed
10:52PM EDT - No release dates?
10:52PM EDT - Going over RX / Polaris and 7th Gen
10:51PM EDT - Lisa Su back on stage
10:49PM EDT - A9, A10, A12, and Radeon R7 445
10:49PM EDT - Dell Inspiron 5000 Series starting at $399
10:49PM EDT - Ray Wah, VP Consumer Product from Dell
10:48PM EDT - Didn't actually say the name. But it's the HP Envy x360
10:48PM EDT - AMD Graphics in HP Omen desktop products
10:47PM EDT - Now VR
10:47PM EDT - Fast charging: 90% in 90 minutes
10:47PM EDT - 9hrs battery
10:47PM EDT - IR Camera for log on
10:47PM EDT - Fully convertible
10:46PM EDT - Directly bonded screen
10:45PM EDT - Now the premium product
10:45PM EDT - A9 to A12 with discrete graphics
10:45PM EDT - Millennials want products that match their style
10:44PM EDT - Josephine Tan, VP Consumer PRoduct Management from HP on stage
10:42PM EDT - Well, the just closed Lionhead, right?
10:42PM EDT - MS Studios is very busy
10:41PM EDT - Want to make W10 feel more connected
10:41PM EDT - New features in the anniversary on W10 update
10:40PM EDT - on Win10
10:39PM EDT - Over 9 billion hours of gaming since launch
10:39PM EDT - Cortana has answered 6 billion questions
10:39PM EDT - On track for 1b in the future
10:39PM EDT - Ryan: Show of hands of who likes Windows 10
10:39PM EDT - Over 300m active devices using Win10
10:38PM EDT - Only a few people put up their hands to those running W10
10:38PM EDT - Deep collaboration to make W10 as great as possible
10:38PM EDT - One of the first people to call Matt about W10 in development was AMD
10:37PM EDT - Bringing W10 features and premium experience to more and more users
10:36PM EDT - Matt Perry, Partner Group Manager at Microsoft on stage
10:36PM EDT - Talking A9, aka Stoney Ridge
10:35PM EDT - 1 in 4 notebooks are under $400
10:35PM EDT - Now talking value segment
10:35PM EDT - AMD"s branding is all on '7th Gen'
10:34PM EDT - Productivity and Efficiency Demo
10:33PM EDT - DDR4, better AVFS
10:33PM EDT - Over +50% CPU perf in Cinebench compared to FX-7500 / Kaveri
10:32PM EDT - LOL is bigger than DOTA2 in Taiwan I think
10:32PM EDT - Now League of Legends
10:31PM EDT - A couple of demos. Video streaming and gaming
10:31PM EDT - New 7th gen at the same power offers +50% GPU perf over an i5-6500U
10:29PM EDT - 4K and HEVC support, top to bottom support
10:29PM EDT - We want to be in every pixel
10:29PM EDT - Dell and HP will announce products
10:28PM EDT - over 3b transistors for Bristol Ridge
10:28PM EDT - Announcing 7th Gen
10:27PM EDT - 1st Gen was Llano in 2011
10:27PM EDT - That's about 2.5B hours/day
10:27PM EDT - ' We want all of those 10 trillion seconds to count'
10:26PM EDT - '10 Trillion seconds of PC use every day'
10:25PM EDT - Jim Anderson, SVP GM Computing and Graphics
10:25PM EDT - Now up, APU
10:24PM EDT - Entire GPU stack info is coming out in the next few weeks
10:24PM EDT - Ryan: Are we still going to have vendors seriously pitch multi-GPU given all of the problems in the past year?
10:24PM EDT - 'Polaris is a giant step forward'
10:23PM EDT - 1080p Max settings I think
10:22PM EDT - The one on the right is GTX 1080 for $700, the one on the left for under $500
10:22PM EDT - Two live demos of Ashes at $700
10:21PM EDT - Now a stab at $700 products
10:20PM EDT - Doom will have exclusive features on Polaris... ?
10:20PM EDT - 'Won't need a $700 to enjoy Doom at high frame rates'
10:20PM EDT - HDR support in id Tech 6
10:19PM EDT - Polaris + Vulkan will allow people to play Doom on their laptop on the train home
10:19PM EDT - Doom developers on video talking about Polaris and Doom on Vulkan
10:18PM EDT - RX480 is designed to deliver premium experiences
10:17PM EDT - Freesync, Async Compute and mGPU
10:17PM EDT - Radeon Software + DX12 + Vulkan + GPU open
10:16PM EDT - 150W
10:16PM EDT - DP 1.3 and DP 1.4
10:15PM EDT - $199 is the 4GB GDDR5 edition
10:15PM EDT - over 5 TFlops in a $199 card
10:15PM EDT - "Built like a $500 card"
10:15PM EDT - RX480
10:15PM EDT - Build for premium gaming
10:14PM EDT - $199
10:14PM EDT - Now POLARIS
10:13PM EDT - Deliver High perf, low cost, low power: then VR for everyone
10:13PM EDT - Ryan: So after bringing down video card costs, bringing down headset costs will need to be the next big effort
10:13PM EDT - But also VR development on a large scale is needed
10:13PM EDT - AMD's goal is to power the next 100m VR gamers, and they want it today
10:12PM EDT - Most gamers consider VR equipment too expensive and gamers get left behind
10:11PM EDT - only 1% of 1.3b gamers can do VR because most users buy GPUs at $100-$300
10:11PM EDT - The problem with VR is that for most people, it's something they read about but do not experience
10:10PM EDT - Getting updates to gamers ASAP
10:10PM EDT - VR for the first 100m consumers
10:10PM EDT - Making the next 250m PC Gamers
10:10PM EDT - The vision for PC Gaming
10:09PM EDT - PC Gamers adapt to technologies
10:09PM EDT - Three principles: Passion, Persistence and Play
10:08PM EDT - 'How can we get market share in PC gaming and graphics? was a goal'
10:08PM EDT - SVP and Chief Architect of Radeon Technology Group (RTG)
10:07PM EDT - Raja Koduri on stage
10:07PM EDT - Talking about Polaris, 7th Gen and the future
10:07PM EDT - Going to discuss 7th Gen APUs
10:06PM EDT - Goal is to lead the GPU industry for 10 yeas
10:06PM EDT - 9 months since RTG
10:06PM EDT - About immersion and interactivity
10:06PM EDT - 'Delivering immersive experiences'
10:05PM EDT - CPU: Bristol Ridge and Stoney Ridge, Second-Gen Excavator. http://www.anandtech.com/show/10362/amd-7th-generation-apu-bristol-ridge-stoney-ridge-for-notebooks
10:05PM EDT - graphics and compute
10:05PM EDT - GPUs: Radeon RX 480, $199, June 29th. http://www.anandtech.com/show/10389/amd-teases-radeon-rx-480-launching-june-29th-for-199
10:05PM EDT - AMD is about leadership and technology
10:05PM EDT - Last year, first HBM GPU
10:05PM EDT - Along with this live conference, AMD news about GPUs and CPUs has just hit the wire
10:05PM EDT - 'Practically every console has an AMD APU in it'
10:04PM EDT - The mission
10:04PM EDT - Lisa Su on stage