Rumor: AMD will bring back Excavator core for one last dance
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While everybody is looking forward to AMD processors based on the upcoming Zen architecture, those chips are still a ways off. During the Raymond James Technology Investors Conference, AMD CFO Devinder Kumar said that Zen-based CPUs wouldn't ship for revenue until 2017, according to a Seeking Alpha transcript. In the meantime, it seems the company may bring back the Excavator core found in Carrizo APUs for one more round of processors, if some internal slides BenchLife got its hands on are the real deal.
Since Carrizo didn't make its way to the desktop, the company has only introduced refreshed Kaveri APUs this year. 2016 may be a little more exciting, since the rumored ...