The first OEM PC manufacturer companies chosen by AMD to promote their Bristol Ridge APUs for desktops are Lenovo and HP.
AMD Bristol Ridge APUs
According to the website wccftech.com, AMD has announced the official launch of their seventh generation Bristol Ridge APUs for desktop platforms on a press release published on the company's website. Several OEM manufacturers will offer for sale the latest AMD APUs.
Previously, AMD had already launched Bristol Ridge APUs for notebooks but the chip is now brought to the masses on desktop platforms. ADM has reached an important milestone with the consumer release of these new HP and Lenovo designs.
According to PCWorld, the low-power Stoney Bridge and Bristol Ridge APUs will help AMD in its plans to conquer the mass market of budget PCs. This segment of the market has grown in importance for the company's future.
According to The Inquirer, AMD debuted its Bristol Ridge and Stoney Ridge integrated graphics APUs at the Computex show in Taipei. This is a new seventh-generation of company's APUs that consists in a combined total of nine new products. The chips cater to a market comprised of low-end, budget computers to up to premium devices.
Bristol Ridge and Stony Ridge represent the first APU refresh coming from AMD in a year, since the launch of the Carrizo chips last May. The AMD APUs have been traditionally promoted by the company as cheap alternatives that can provide more graphics power for a lower price.
The new seventh generation AMD APUs feature the company's Excavator core technology. On the low-end A6 and E2 series this will be paired with R4 and R2 graphics. The A10 and A9 lines will be paired with AMD's R5 graphics and the FX and A12 lines with AMD's Radeon R7 graphics cores.
According to Ars Technica, AMD Bristol Ridge APUs have the same Carrizo design but are able to provide 37 percent more GPU performance and 20 percent more CPU performance. Even more impressive is the fact that all this performance is packed in the exact same architecture as Carrizo chips based on 28nm transistors and Excavator design.
AMD's Bristol Ridge APUs mark a major increase in productivity performance, as well as in eSports gaming and streaming video experiences. The new seventh generation AMD A-Series desktop processors allow new OEM designs that feature the company's new AM4 desktop platform.
