AMD Kaveri A10-7850K due to launch January 14

Quizzical

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2062430/amds-next-gen-kaveri-chip-due-in-january.html

It will be a quad core clocked at 3.7 GHz, with a 512-shader GPU clocked at 720 MHz.  On the GPU side, that makes it basically a Radeon HD 7750, except clocked 10% lower.  It's not clear how--or whether--AMD will deliver adequate memory bandwidth to feed the GPU.

I'm guessing that those numbers are the base speeds, with turbo to take the clock speeds up higher.  But that's just a guess on my part.  Anyway, the clock speed comes down some as compared to Richland, but CPU performance should still be up.  Also notable is that there is no longer a shared scheduler between the cores in a module, so you don't lose performance per core as you use more cores.

Cleffy

Looks monolithic in size, but not as huge as the chips in the next gen consoles. I wonder if they will put this on a new socket to support the chip better.

I imagine non-APU on that same die size would have 16 cores.

Quizzical

It's a new process node, so it's likely to actually be a smaller die than Trinity or Richland.