At the end of the week, AMD representatives said that the 28-nm hybrid processors Kabini not only will be announced as planned, but also already exist in the form of engineering samples. In general, AMD already has examples of almost all products, the announcement of which is scheduled for 2013. In Kabini AMD company sees a worthy successor to Brazos platform , which, moreover, is the first truly highly integrated solution such as system-on-a-chip (SoC) from this manufacturer.
The existing engineering models based on Kabini stepping A0, in the version with four cores and a TDP up to 15 W, they operate at 1.4 GHz, dynamically overclocking to 1.75 GHz. The graphics core, which must support DirectX 11.01 is clocked at 686 MHz.
In general, the TDP of processors in this series have been identified : 9 to 25 watts. The first and last values are for four-core processor, but for dual-core models : 4.8 w, 5.9 W, 9 watts and 15 watts.
Cache in the first level is a combination of 32 KB instruction cache and 32 KB data cache. Cache in the second level is 2 MB. Controller input-output ports built directly into the CPU, so Kabini do not require traditional chipset chip , saving space on the circuit board. Here is a list of supported FCH integrated interfaces:
- Universal Serial Bus (USB) versions 1.1, 2.0, and 3.0;
- Serial ATA revision 3.0;
- Secure Digital (SD);
- System Management Bus (SMBus);
- Low Pin Count (LPC) bus;
- High Definition (HD) audio;
- Serial IRQ;
- Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) ROM;
- Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI).
Kabini processors will be offered featuring the Socket FT3 (BGA), although this is not the only option, according to previously published information. Recall AMD yesterday confirmed its intention to release these processors on the market in the first half of 2013. Their computational core architecture will be Jaguar, an evolutionary Bobcat successor. Processors will be used in ultrathin laptops initial price level.