Ron’s comments were made in relation to Trinity and Richland, he makes no mention of Kaveri specifically. His statement is actually correct in that they’re sticking with FM2 for the future generation of Richland parts, but it makes no sense for AMD to maintain FM2 compatibility with Kaveri, as it requires power to different components in different ways.
In addition, Kaveri has 901 pins on the chip itself, whereas Trinity/Richland uses all 904 pins on the FM2 socket. TechpowerUp’s senior editor, btarunr, added onto the Wikipedia page for FM2+ that the socket is backwards-compatible, but FM2 won’t support Kaveri. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socket_FM2]
In addition, there are articles on the net from writers who were at Computex supporting the claim that FM2+ is backwards-compatible. [http://wccftech.com/amd-fm2-socket-kaveri-apu-compatible-trinity-richland/]
Kaveri could easily have launched this past week and AMD has the silicon taped out and board manufacturers are ready. I assume they’re employing a different tactic to Llano, where they oversupplied the retail chain and had vendors sitting with stock they’ll never sell. This time, Richland is faster and uses less power than Trinity and will use up the boards available for FM2. Once FM2+ launches, Richland will get a major price drop and Kaveri will fill in the mainstream segment nicely.
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Ron’s comments were made in relation to Trinity and Richland, he makes no mention of Kaveri specifically. His statement is actually correct in that they’re sticking with FM2 for the future generation of Richland parts, but it makes no sense for AMD to maintain FM2 compatibility with Kaveri, as it requires power to different components in different ways.
In addition, Kaveri has 901 pins on the chip itself, whereas Trinity/Richland uses all 904 pins on the FM2 socket. TechpowerUp’s senior editor, btarunr, added onto the Wikipedia page for FM2+ that the socket is backwards-compatible, but FM2 won’t support Kaveri. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socket_FM2]
In addition, there are articles on the net from writers who were at Computex supporting the claim that FM2+ is backwards-compatible. [http://wccftech.com/amd-fm2-socket-kaveri-apu-compatible-trinity-richland/]
Kaveri could easily have launched this past week and AMD has the silicon taped out and board manufacturers are ready. I assume they’re employing a different tactic to Llano, where they oversupplied the retail chain and had vendors sitting with stock they’ll never sell. This time, Richland is faster and uses less power than Trinity and will use up the boards available for FM2. Once FM2+ launches, Richland will get a major price drop and Kaveri will fill in the mainstream segment nicely.