Will AMD be able to repeat the breakthrough it made in the desktop segment with the transition to chiplets? Mobile APU companies will also become like this

by alex

The Strix, Sarlak and Kraken lines will supposedly be chiplet

Perhaps the next AMD mobile processors will switch to a chiplet layout, as has been implemented in desktop Ryzens for many years. 

New details about the Strix, Sarlak and Kraken lines have appeared on the Internet, and for all of them the presence of an I/O crystal is indicated, and they will be different for these lines. And the IO crystal, accordingly, is available only in chiplet APUs.  

Of course, high-performance mobile Ryzen HX already have a chiplet layout, but this is only because in fact they are exactly the same desktop Ryzen, only with limited power limits. Intel is now creating its own high-performance mobile CPUs in exactly the same way. 

Presumably, the Strix line will be presented in the form of the Ryzen 8050 APU and will be released in the second half of the year. The configuration of such APUs will have eight processor cores, and therefore it is not yet clear why such processors need a chiplet layout. 

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But Sarlak, which is also sometimes called Strix Halo, will already have up to 16 CPU cores and up to 40 CU units in the iGPU! Most likely, here the graphics core can be separated into a separate chiplet. By the way, there will be more affordable options with 12 CPU cores and 16 CU units. 

As for Kraken, they will be released later than Strix and will have up to eight Zen 5 and Zen 5c cores and an RDNA 3.5 iGPU with a maximum of 8 CUs. 

There is still the first data about APU Sound Wave, but little is known about them yet. Apparently, these are solutions that will come out in a generation and already based on Zen 6 and RDNA 5. 

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