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Posted by Sam Reynolds — June 7th, 2012, 11:03 PM

As predicted by numerous industry pundits, due to delays the desktop version of AMD’s Trinity APU is a no-show at Computex.

Originally projected for an August launch, the desktop version of Trinity is now expected in September-October.

SemiAccurate’s Charlie Demerjian first reported on the delay in early June, followed by TechEye.

Benchmarks done to date indicate that while Trinity on the desktop proves to be power efficient, it is much slower than an equivalently clocked Intel chip.

While the desktop APU is nowhere in sight, the mobile version of the chip geared towards laptops and tablets has been the star of AMD’s show.

Despite the APU’s uncertain future, a number of motherboard manufactures had boards with FM2 – desktop Trinity’s socket – on display.

 

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  • Justicar

    And AMD was just a faint memory.

  • Justicar

    And AMD was just a faint memory.

  • Justicar

    And AMD was just a faint memory.

  • Jjthomp

    He is right to a certain degree unless you are crunching numbers you really don’t need that super expensive CPU. I think in the short run it will be painful for them but if they take over the majority of the consumer sales it wont matter.

    Intel pushing for faster speeds all the time makes them more expensive and for what most people do you don’t need an intel CPU. If AMD just works for cheap and efficient processors (lets face it they are way behind Intel in speed and it would cost them a lot to catch up) they will probably come out ahead in the long run. Especially with the way many programs are starting to utilize GPU’s. I wouldn’t be surprised if AMD saw nvidia as a bigger threat than intel.

  • Jjthomp

    He is right to a certain degree unless you are crunching numbers you really don’t need that super expensive CPU. I think in the short run it will be painful for them but if they take over the majority of the consumer sales it wont matter.

    Intel pushing for faster speeds all the time makes them more expensive and for what most people do you don’t need an intel CPU. If AMD just works for cheap and efficient processors (lets face it they are way behind Intel in speed and it would cost them a lot to catch up) they will probably come out ahead in the long run. Especially with the way many programs are starting to utilize GPU’s. I wouldn’t be surprised if AMD saw nvidia as a bigger threat than intel.

  • Jjthomp

    He is right to a certain degree unless you are crunching numbers you really don’t need that super expensive CPU. I think in the short run it will be painful for them but if they take over the majority of the consumer sales it wont matter.

    Intel pushing for faster speeds all the time makes them more expensive and for what most people do you don’t need an intel CPU. If AMD just works for cheap and efficient processors (lets face it they are way behind Intel in speed and it would cost them a lot to catch up) they will probably come out ahead in the long run. Especially with the way many programs are starting to utilize GPU’s. I wouldn’t be surprised if AMD saw nvidia as a bigger threat than intel.

  • stoanee

    I think the future is cpu with integrated graphics. I am looking for a lappy right now and absolute power is not required but better than average graphics is.

  • stoanee

    I think the future is cpu with integrated graphics. I am looking for a lappy right now and absolute power is not required but better than average graphics is.

  • stoanee

    I think the future is cpu with integrated graphics. I am looking for a lappy right now and absolute power is not required but better than average graphics is.

  • Guest

    claims are ridiculous.
    steamroller with ddr4 will beat the crap out of i7 3960x or maybe match up.
    Partly right competition just seems ridiculous.
    an amd system can run 40tabs chrome along with 40 tabs opera including with all flash content with skyrim minimized and video transcoding running in background…..
    Intel will do just the same and you wont notice any difference.

    its a brain dead situation as of now.

    Any more computational processing and your gray matter will start to decay…after all we need to sleep the nights and shit the next morning we wake up.

  • Guest

    claims are ridiculous.
    steamroller with ddr4 will beat the crap out of i7 3960x or maybe match up.
    Partly right competition just seems ridiculous.
    an amd system can run 40tabs chrome along with 40 tabs opera including with all flash content with skyrim minimized and video transcoding running in background…..
    Intel will do just the same and you wont notice any difference.

    its a brain dead situation as of now.

    Any more computational processing and your gray matter will start to decay…after all we need to sleep the nights and shit the next morning we wake up.

  • Guest

    claims are ridiculous.
    steamroller with ddr4 will beat the crap out of i7 3960x or maybe match up.
    Partly right competition just seems ridiculous.
    an amd system can run 40tabs chrome along with 40 tabs opera including with all flash content with skyrim minimized and video transcoding running in background…..
    Intel will do just the same and you wont notice any difference.

    its a brain dead situation as of now.

    Any more computational processing and your gray matter will start to decay…after all we need to sleep the nights and shit the next morning we wake up.

  • Klimax

    Keep dreaming. It’s afterall very nice fantasy you have up there…

  • Klimax

    Keep dreaming. It’s afterall very nice fantasy you have up there…

  • Klimax

    Keep dreaming. It’s afterall very nice fantasy you have up there…

  • Great_Big_Abyss

    Hellooo Trinity!!!!

  • Great_Big_Abyss

    Hellooo Trinity!!!!

  • Great_Big_Abyss

    Hellooo Trinity!!!!

  • Zector45

    I really do not think AMD can catch up with Intel. That is why they are giving up and moving on to other markets. Intel has won. End of Story. AMD needs to crawl back into their hole they dug themselves with Bulldozer (Most disappointing AMD launch ever!).

  • Zector45

    I really do not think AMD can catch up with Intel. That is why they are giving up and moving on to other markets. Intel has won. End of Story. AMD needs to crawl back into their hole they dug themselves with Bulldozer (Most disappointing AMD launch ever!).

  • Zector45

    I really do not think AMD can catch up with Intel. That is why they are giving up and moving on to other markets. Intel has won. End of Story. AMD needs to crawl back into their hole they dug themselves with Bulldozer (Most disappointing AMD launch ever!).

  • User99

    “There’s enough processing power on every laptop on the planet today.” I want more than enough, so do many others.

    Here’s another prediction that didn’t work out too well “640K ought to be enough for anybody”

  • User99

    “There’s enough processing power on every laptop on the planet today.” I want more than enough, so do many others.

    Here’s another prediction that didn’t work out too well “640K ought to be enough for anybody”

  • User99

    “There’s enough processing power on every laptop on the planet today.” I want more than enough, so do many others.

    Here’s another prediction that didn’t work out too well “640K ought to be enough for anybody”

  • http://www.facebook.com/tink.pez Fisch Pescado

    Total Fail AMD

  • Batman4u

    Same Reason i this year i finally went to the Dark Side, built my First (intel-Nvidia) Core i5-GTX670 this year, after so much faith in AMD.

    I just think AMD should focus in the notebook and graphics, thats it, desktop cpus are way out of competition

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/REVIBORV4J7MUVSO6IUSDHE6A4 Patrick

    “Benchmarks done to date indicate that while Trinity on the desktop proves to be power efficient, it is much slower than an equivalently clocked Intel chip.”

    So? It’s been clear since Bulldozer came out that AMD is going the high clock-rate route. The trouble is that Bulldozer failed to reach the needed clocks.
    But really, what do I care if the chip needs to be clocked at 4GHz to deliver the performance of a 3GHz Intel chip, as long as it does clock high enough.
    That’s the really important question: Will it do so?