First AMD AM4 Powered Systems to Ship Second Half of 2016

AMD has officially launched their new 7th generation APUs previously codenamed Bristol Ridge for OEMs and provided an insight into the shipping date of systems supporting the new architecture. According to AMD, HP and Lenovo devices will include Bristol Ridge APUs and become available in the second half of 2016. These APUs will take advantage of the latest AM4 socket. This means the motherboard can be equipped with DDR4 memory, NVMe storage, SATA Express, USB 3.1, PCI-E Gen 3 and a host of other features. Kevin Lensing, Corporate VP and general manager of Client Computing at AMD spoke about the 7th generation APUs and said:

“The consumer release of these new HP and Lenovo designs is an important milestone for AMD on two fronts. First, it marks a major increase in productivity performance, streaming video and eSports gaming experiences sought after by today’s consumers, delivered through our new 7th Generation AMD A-Series desktop processors. Second, because these new OEM designs also feature our new AM4 desktop platform, the motherboard ecosystem shows its readiness for our upcoming high-performance “Summit Ridge” desktop CPUs featuring “Zen” cores, which share the same platform,”

Here is AMD’s new product line-up in full:

This is a very exciting time for AMD, and I’m looking forward to seeing how the latest APUs perform compared to previous offerings. Hopefully, consumers will be able to acquire OEM PCs with 7th generation APUs fairly soon and enjoy a significant performance boost.