AMD CEO Lisa Su said in a recent interview, the timing of the appearance of hybrid processors Bristol Ridge in Socket AM4 in the retail market has not yet been finally approved, but this year we will surely see them separately from the finished PCs, Which they registered until last fall.
Recall that the Bristol Ridge processors use the old architecture of the Excavator cores, they are equipped with good built-in graphics, and their main advantage in the layered situation is the potentially low price, which, combined with the performance of Socket AM4, makes the APU data "the first step" in the step-by-step construction of the system with This type of processor socket. The eight-core Ryzen 7 is expensive and limited in assortment, and the more accessible Ryzen 3 will have to wait until the next half-year.
Colleagues from the resource Planet3DNow.de could not cope with the emotional tension, and asked for clarifications to AMD representatives , who had to say that so far no significant changes in the structure of processors supply Bristol Ridge is not expected. That is, they will be offered in laptops and ready-made desktop PCs, but it will still be problematic to buy just processors .