AMD's next-gen console-like Strix Halo super APU said to be delayed until 2025

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Variously known as Strix Halo or Sarlack, whatever you want to call it, the latest rumour is that AMD's much anticipated super APU is said to be delayed until 2025. In a further disappointment, the slightly less ambitious Strix Point APU is also said to be bumped by a few quarters.

Now, these are rumours concerning unannounced next-gen products from AMD. So, we're talking about delays from dates that are themselves unofficial. But if this new information from YouTube channel Moore's Law is Dead is accurate, it is rather a pity. 

Strix Halo in particular is exciting thanks to its huge graphics performance potential. For starters, it's said to house a GPU packing 40 RDNA 3.5-spec compute units, putting its raw graphical power at least on a par with something like an AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT desktop graphics card, which sports 40 RDNA 2-spec CUs. That's fantastic for an integrated GPU primarily designed for laptops.

Of course, the immediate question for a really high performance integrated GPU is memory bandwidth. Will there be enough? Well, Strix Halo is rumoured to have a 256-bit memory bus, twice as wide as any existing APU and indeed twice as wide as all conventional desktop PC processors.

In that sense, Strix Halo looks a little more like the APUs that go into the latest consoles, such as the Microsoft Xbox Series X and the Sony PS5, than it does a PC APU. The exception is that Strix Halo is said to be a chiplet design, where those console APUs are single-chip monolithic designs.

Oh, and did we mention that Strix Halo supposedly has 16 Zen 5 CPU cores? Yeah, the thing is a monster. To put all this into context, AMD's current flagship APU, codenamed Phoenix and used to great effect in gaming handhelds like the Asus