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AMD has today announced its 6th Generation A-Series Processors at the ongoing Computex 2015 event in Taipei, Taiwan.
The company says that the A-series (which was previously codenamed Carrizo) is the world’s first high-performance Accelerated Processing Unit (APU) in a System-on-Chip (SoC) design.
The SoC design has other firsts as well, says AMD. According to a press statement from the company, the SoC also has the world’s first High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) hardware decode support for notebooks, the first Heterogeneous Systems Architecture (HSA) 1.0-compliant design, and the first ARM TrustZone-capable high-performance APU.
AMD says that the processors can use up to 12 core (4 CPU + 8 GPU) and that it offers more than twice the battery life of its predecessor and up to two times faster gaming performance than competitive processors. The A-series comes will support Microsoft Windows 10 and addition offer support for DirectX 12.
Matt Skynner, corporate VP and general manager, Products at AMD, said in a press statement, “Our partners have plans to introduce our 6th-generation APU in many of today’s most innovative notebook platforms, demonstrating the full potential of the APU’s capabilities.”
The 6th generation A-series also brings HEVC/H.265 to the notebooks which will allow for higher quality, lower bandwidth streaming video playback against traditional H.264 videos. It will support Ultra HD resolution videos.
AMD says that Notebooks featuring the 6th Generation AMD A-Series Processor will be available from top OEMs starting in June.
Via IndianExpress
