Sea Island will be 28nm based , and mostly will be EGCN (GCN 1.1)
Volcanic Island series will bring full HSA and context switching and full QOS
Basically true GCN V2.0, 20nm based
Who has patent of it recently (Scalable + QOS) , you probably already know
VOLCANIC Island
http://news.softpedia.com/news/AMD-Prepares-Sea-Volcanic-and-Pirate-Islands-GPUs-293535.shtml
the Volcanic Islands will be the first GPU family possible to manufacture in Common Platform Alliance as well as TSMC.
In other words, AMD will have alternatives to TSMC's GigaFab Hsinchu/Taichung: IBM East Fishkill, GlobalFoundries in New York and Dresden or Samsung in Austin. Thus, there should be no chip shortage crippling its marketing performance anymore.
The Volcanic Islands GPUs will be designed on the 20nm Gate-Last manufacturing process and will bring silicon-level integration. The discrete GPU will tightly collaborate with the graphics capabilities of the APU, and the CPU will be treated as “an integral part” as well.
http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/graphi..._Islands_and_Pirates_Islands_Approaching.html
system architecture. Volcanic Islands GPUs, when accompanied by appropriate microprocessors and operating system, will support GPU compute context switch [GPU computes every single piece of application that it can] as well as GPU graphics pre-emption.
Look at above quote carrefully
Then remember who has low yield news, with fermi like low yield trying to fabbed to 3 factory (it is like try to fab 2014 GPU onto 2012)
Volcanic Island
key point
- 20nm
- Full Context full HSA
- APU + GPU will be integral
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1st to be fabbed to CPA (common Platform Alliance)
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Now, Secret APU for Xbox next and PS4
My Observation
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Thebes
-28nm based, will APU only, and will be based on Sea island
-Thebes, is like moon on Jupiter, rather cold than hot, so basically this is the mobile version in performance or the low cost version, Venus XTX and Sun XT are the fastest one related to Hot than cold.
-Certainly not meet the CPA (common platform Alliance) standard, so even if this is more onto of the self based (minor custom), Sony will be get delayed not because waiting some technological breakthrough but because they not meet CPA standard to fab efficiently on 3 other Factory if necessary.
-will be very affordable
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Kryptos
From above Quote related to Volcanic Island
The discrete GPU will tightly collaborate with the graphics capabilities of the APU, and the CPU will be treated as “an integral part” as well
system architecture. Volcanic Islands GPUs, when accompanied by appropriate microprocessors and operating system, will support GPU compute context switch [GPU computes every single piece of application that it can] as well as GPU graphics pre-emption.
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Kryptos means:
Hidden message
Secret
Volcanic (very Hot) Kryptos Lava dome
- A Custom GPU and APU based on Volcanic Island, beyond 8000 series future GPU
so very high probability it will be 2 Big Chip
-will be APU and GPU
-GPU part certainly will be 20nm, low yield monster chip > fabbed to multi factory CPA standard
-APU will be 22nm , GPU 20nm (final target)
-Meet with recent insider
sweetvar: "High Priority, supercomputer architecture etc"
aegis
dualpixel "2-3 times than PS4"
lherre ("a Beast, etc)
-will have Fully HSA GCN V2.0
So i expect:
Xbox next targetted 2013-2014, to compensate with that MS will release xbox surface or xbox TV first.
PS4 or PS omni, will be targetted for 2013, unless there will be delay because related to fab problem (non CPA)
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