Socket am4 will have excavator based apus
A few days ago we echoed a rumor suggesting that we would see the first AM4 socket motherboards around April 2016, something that there would be hope that AMD processors will arrive earlier than expected, eventually it will not.
We will have motherboards with AM4 socket in March 2016 but it will not be finally to receive the Zen microarchitecture, instead AMD will launch new APUs based on the Excavator microarchitecture for the AM4 socket. A socket that will allow us to mount both APUs and processors without an integrated GPU and that will be compatible with Zen when I arrived on the market, something that finally everything points to that will be in late 2016.
Excavator APUs for AM4 are called “ Bristol Ridge ” and will have support for DDR4-2400 and, presumably, DDR3 just like Intel Skylake. Bristol Ridge will offer up to 4 x86 processing cores (2 modules) with a TDP between 45W and 65W, thus offering a good increase in efficiency compared to the most powerful Steamroller-based models with a 95W TDP.
Source: techpowerup
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