Trinity Yields Looking Good So Far, AMD Can Exhale
Trinity Yields Looking Good So Far, AMD Can Exhale
Posted 12/05/2011 at 12:17pm
| by Paul Lilly
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From a manufacturing standpoint, it's been nothing short of a challenging year for AMD. Poor yields affected AMD's 32nm Llano Fusion APUs (Accelerated Processing Units), which ended up delaying its release. Looking ahead, it appears AMD's next generation Trinity APUs will enjoy a smoother rollout and won't be hit by the same yield issues that plagued Llano.
News and rumor site Fudzilla reports that Trinity is "looking good" so far, based on sources close to AMD. That means Trinity has a good shot at launching in the first quarter of 2012 as planned, and equally important for AMD, will allow the chip maker to kick the new year off on the right foot.
Trinity, in case you're not familiar, is based on Piledriver, which itself is a tweaked version of Bulldozer. It's an upgrade to Llano for general purpose computing and is based on the socket FM2 package. Roughly speaking, performance is expected to be anywhere from 20 percent to 30 percent faster than Llano, on average, based on early benchmarks around the Web.
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livebriand
December 05, 2011 at 8:20pm
Is this going to be another flop, like bulldozer, or will it be a decent CPU that can compete well against Intel? After Bulldozer, I wouldn't get my hopes up too much.
themohawkadmin
December 05, 2011 at 9:54pm
Trinity is just an update of their Fusion line of "APU"s using Bulldozer cores instead of Phenom cores.
illusionslayer
December 08, 2011 at 6:30am
Trinity is based on Piledriver.
But, I seriosuly doubt it will be a big enough improvement to be competitive.
kixofmyg0t
December 05, 2011 at 2:40pm
This is great news for me. Im looking to replace my 2 year old Turion X2 powered laptop with Trinity. Just hope HDD prices dont ruin my plans.
I hope for another HP DV7 17" with two HDD bays again. Throw a 128GB SSD and a WD Scorpio Black in it and call it a day. I think thatll be enough power for the next 2 episodes of StarCraft 2. Thats the only PC game that seems interesting for the next 3 years.
bloodgain
December 05, 2011 at 1:05pm
Cue news that there is a major error in the first run of the chip, and the whole thing will have to be scrapped for a new revision.
Certainly AMD can't catch a break. That would be a sign of the end times.
al360ex
December 05, 2011 at 12:36pm
It's AMD...who cares ?
From a performance standpoint, Intel/Nvidia is the way to go !
limitbreaker
December 05, 2011 at 1:11pm
Youre completely neglecting the fact that AMD fusion is a budget build and offers the best bang for the buck. It's specially great for laptops under 1000$ which used to have horrible intel accelerated GPU that was useless outside of displaying your desktop.
My friend has fusion A6 laptop he bought for 600$ and it plays all modern games fairly well.
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