AMD Launches Carrizo

I wonder if stagnating CPU requirements might make AMD competitive again.<p>I have a 4 year old i5 laptop that can handle 100% of general office&#x2F;home use. Battery life and gaming are the only two weak points. AMD aren&#x27;t going to compete with Intel on battery life but with overall cpu&#x2F;gpu power consumption falling it&#x27;s not as big of a problem as it used to be.<p>Wish they weren&#x27;t stuck on 28nm still. It seems like Intel will be pushing 10 before they get down to 20&#x2F;22... Maybe I&#x27;m just nostalgic of my overclocked Athlon 64 but I&#x27;d love to see AMD make a comeback and the nm gap between AMD and Intel just seems like kneecapping the underdog.<p>Realistically they are going to be launching this against Skylake and I can&#x27;t help but think all the advantages they are promoting are going to get nullified by that. (HEVC and gaming performance)

These days when I read news like this, my first response is that, does AMD have any chance to survive at all? The technical details for any new chip is secondary.<p>Dr.Su did not have a good tracking record and I never got it why she was picked as the CEO, but it&#x27;s not all her fault though, AMD has been in decline for years, I just hope someone will buy it before it totally collapses.<p>Additionally, Intel is battling with ARM&#x2F;Samsung etc and the need for AMD as a competitor(i.e. to avoid monopoly litigation) is gone too.<p>Sigh.

Peak 3D performance does not matter.<p>With Tao3D, I keep pushing graphic cards to their limit, on laptops and desktops. This raymarching example <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=GUMqT9W5BG8" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=GUMqT9W5BG8</a> runs fine on my Macbook Pro for about 20 seconds. After that, the heat becomes high enough to throttle the system down. And you end up with a very unpleasant &quot;fast&#x2F;slow&#x2F;fast&#x2F;slow&#x2F;fast&#x2F;slow&quot; experience as the system tries to cool down its graphic chip.<p>So you really don&#x27;t care about PEAK performance. What you care about is sustained performance, and power consumption in that scenario (not just running idle).

As a programmer, I have high hopes for HSA. I wish Intel would adopt it or join the HSA consortium and get onboard. That would push APUs forward for everyone.

AMD has to stop naming their products like this.<p>I mean look at Intel, i3,i5,i7. I can at-least guess which one&#x27;s better.<p>Yes I do understand that Intel too has many different names that caters to different markets, yet somehow Intel’s names are far more easier for me to understand, they are far more shorter, and if I want more details about the processor I can read what’s after the &quot;Intel-i7-xxxx&quot; and figure what it is.<p>I really want to see AMD succeed, I want to have more options when I want to buy a processor.

They are also going to debut their new 300 series GPUs with HBM in two weeks at E3. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;AMDRadeon&#x2F;status&#x2F;605938931448737792" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;AMDRadeon&#x2F;status&#x2F;605938931448737792</a>

&gt; AMD Secure Processor<p>Can anyone explain how this works and why should a user want it? It seems like a DRM on your device.

Lack of VP9 support is bad for Youtube (and Google). I wonder if it would be too hard to support both codecs.

Not a word on Linux support, of course.