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AMD unveils PRO A-Series desktop and mobile processors

HP EliteDesk 705, with AMD PRO A-Series desktop processor

HP EliteDesk 705, with AMD PRO A-Series desktop processor

Formerly called Carrizo and Godavari PRO, the processors are intended to run Windows 10, said AMD.

PRO A-Series Mobile 

These have the firm’s fastest mobile processor – version A12 running at up to 3.4GHz. There are 12 cores (4 CPU + 8 GPU).

Graphics are Radeon R7, with up to 800MHz clocking and 512 graphics compute cores. “It is the first commercial processor in the industry designed to be compliant with the Heterogeneous Systems Architecture [HSA] 1.0,” said AMD.

The device is ARM TrustZone hypervisor capable, enabling TrustZone to run on the on-board secure processor, and it has a HEVC (High-Efficiency Video Compression) decoder for streaming HD content.

The chips are already available in some HP EliteBook laptops.

PRO A-Series Desktop

“With support for Quick Stream PRO, the new AMD PRO desktop processors virtually eliminate the lag in latency-sensitive applications like VoIP and streaming video.,” said AMD, “Quick Stream PRO uses built-in intelligence to identify and allot more bandwidth for businesses’ highest priority applications.”

The chips are already installed some Lenovo M79 Towers and HP EliteDesk 705 Micro Towers.