AMD Announces Sea Islands GPUs Coming in 2013

Today at AMD’s 2012 Financial Analyst Day the company showed off a client and graphics product roadmap that goes all the way into 2013. The slide showed that the Sea Islands GPU architecture will replace the Southern Islands architecture that just came out in November 2011 for discrete graphics sometime in 2013. Southern Islands is the core architecture used on AMD Radeon HD 7970 and Radeon HD 7950 GPUs. AMD also announced that Kaveri will become the companies 3rd generation APU and will use the Steamroller core architecture. On the low power and ultra low power APU side of things, AMD announced Kabini and Temash. Kabini and Temash are SoC processors. All of the new parts will be made on the 28nm. Right now AMD is making products on the 40nm, 32nm and 28nm manufacturing nodes.