AMD APUs roll out

Raven Ridge is the codename for AMD's Ryzen 7 2700U Processor with Radeon Vega Graphics. In choosing a name AMD wanted to highlight the Vega graphics as a discrete graphics alternative. We however expect abbreviated forms to be used, and would have been happy with Raven Ridge. Still, the point is important: marrying an x86 processor with a GPU in the same die is far from an easy task. Which is why only clever heterogenous-design-capable companies like AMD and Intel can do it. Managing variables such as power management, memory communications, I/O, and performance-tuning is mind-boggling. In the die photo