AMD is starting with a bang announcement at the developer conference APU13. There will be several APU/CPU related announcements in the uypcoming week but today is the announcement and release date of AMD’s Kaveri APU. The desktop APU is going to be a big deal for AMD alright. After the break some explanation and presentation screenshots. The topmodel Kaveri chip does 856 GFlops and is named AMD A10-7850K, the core frequency will be 3,7 GHz with a GPU that gets 512 shader units at 720 MHz. A massive increase alright.

As techradar reports: Following FM2+ motherboard shipments to customers later this year, a process Senior Vice President Lisa Su assured is still on track, Kaveri will arrive in customer desktops starting January 14, 2014. What's more, AMD said more Kaveri details are due at CES 2014. The Vegas show will serve as "the big coming out party for Kaveri," the company said during a phone briefing on November 7. While AMD has yet to confirm, we expect the company will hold a pre-CES tech day to lift the lid further on Kaveri.

What is Kaveri?

Kaveri is AMD's third-gen performance APU and the first with heterogeneous system architecture (HSA) features. It also supports AMD's TrueAudio technology and its Mantle API.
The promise is Kaveri boosts devices to the "next level of graphics, compute and efficiency." To that end, Kaveri is built on up to four "Steamroller" x86, multi-thread cores. On the graphics end, Kaveri has up to eight Graphics Core Next GPU cores. According to AMD, Kaveri's HSA features help unlock al 856 GFlops found in both the CPU and GPU. The GPU carries more of the workload, and a feature called hUMA turns it into a "first-class citizen" when accessing memory. In fact, the GPU is so first class it jams takes up almost 50% of the die and is a 512-core part.

AMD Kaveri launches January 14th as A10-7850K