Tar­gets High Growth Mar­kets with SOC Quad Plat­form for High-Per­for­man­ce/­Low-Power Workloads

SUNNYVALE, Calif. — April 9, 2014 — AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announ­ced glo­bal avai­la­bi­li­ty of its new AM1 plat­form fea­turing  quad-core and dual-core vari­ants of the AMD APU code­na­med “Kabi­ni” into the com­po­nent chan­nel for sys­tem buil­ders. The AM1 plat­form, bran­ded with the AMD Ath­lon™ and AMD Sem­pron™ APU brands will deli­ver award-win­ning Gra­phics Core Next (GCN) archi­tec­tu­re and “Jagu­ar” CPU cores on mother­boards from the lea­ding manu­fac­tu­r­ers. AMD Ath­lon™ 5150/5350 and AMD Sem­pron ™ 2650/3850 APUs pro­vi­de con­su­mers a balan­ced com­pu­ting expe­ri­ence on a socke­ted upgrada­ble platform.

“AMD con­sis­t­ent­ly builds on its indus­try lea­ding tech­no­lo­gy by con­ti­nuing to offer a diver­si­fied pro­duct stack which is pro­ven today with the avai­la­bi­li­ty of the AM1 plat­form with ‘socke­ted’ AMD Sem­pron and AMD Ath­lon APUs desi­gned for the main­stream mar­ket,” said Bernd Lien­hard, cor­po­ra­te vice pre­si­dent and gene­ral mana­ger, Cli­ent Busi­ness Unit, AMD. “With quad-core per­for­mance and AMD Rade­on™ gra­phics the AM1 plat­form is an afforda­ble solu­ti­on that pro­vi­des gre­at fle­xi­bi­li­ty due to an infra­struc­tu­re built to deli­ver a multi­tu­de of opti­ons to our end users and sys­tem builders.”

AMD Ath­lon and AMD Sem­pron APUs deli­ver a quad-core solu­ti­on to con­su­mers that includes two SATA 6 Gbps ports, two USB 3.0 ports, eight USB 2.0 ports, PCIe 2.0 lanes for gra­phic card upgrades, and a trio of video out­puts (Dis­play­Po­rt, HDMI, and VGA) start­ing at under $40 USD[i]. The AMD AM1 plat­form pro­vi­des up to 3x more com­pu­te per­for­mance than its com­pe­ti­tors, as well as balan­ced com­pu­ting with DirectX® 11.2 and Win­dows 8.1 sup­port to main­stream mar­kets[ii].

“The new ‘socke­ted’ Sem­pron and Ath­lon pro­ducts from AMD pro­vi­des our cus­to­mers out­stan­ding value and per­for­mance at low power that was pre­vious­ly unavailable for buy­ers in emer­ging mar­kets loo­king to build sys­tems at home,” said Sebas­ti­an Ree­se, CSL Com­pu­ter GmbH & Co.KG. “We’re thril­led to see the lar­ge num­ber of mother­board manu­fac­tu­r­ers sup­port­ing the plat­form using the FS1b socket and the fle­xi­bi­li­ty it pro­vi­des with microATX and MiniITX mother­boards for sleek and power-effi­ci­ent small form fac­tor PCs.”

Availability and Technical Details

APU Model	TDP	CPU Cores	CPU Fre­quen­cy	Rade­on™ Cores	GPU Fre­quen­cy	Memo­ry Frequency	Total Cache	Pri­ce[iii] (USD)
AMD Ath­lon™ 5350	25W	4	2.05 GHz	128	600 MHz	1600 MHz	2 MB	$59
AMD Ath­lon™ 5150	25W	4	1.6 GHz	128	600 MHz	1600 MHz	2 MB	$49
AMD Sem­pron™ 3850	25W	4	1.3 GHz	128	450 MHz	1600 MHz	2 MB	$39
AMD Sem­pron™ 2650	25W	2	1.45 GHz	128	400 MHz	1333 MHz	1 MB	$34

 

The new AMD AM1 plat­form will be available from the fol­lo­wing e‑tail and retails out­lets in North America:

• Ama­zon
• NCIX
• Newegg
• Tiger­Di­rect

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About AMD

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[iii] SEP as of April 9, 2014.