End Of The Line For AMD FX Processors. (UPDATE)

[TechFan@ic]

UPDATE : Steve Burke of gamersnexus followed up with AMD on this leaked roadmap slide which sparked a lot of controversy.
He contacted James Prior, AMD's public relations manager for APUs & CPUs and he had the following to say :

I've never seen that slide before, I don't know where that came from.

He then went to point out that it's quite rare to see more than a year into the future with roadmaps and that the actual roadmap looks like this :

The only difference being that this roadmap only covers up to 2014 and not after.

AMD's official statement with regards to FX processors and the AM3+ socket :

AMD will continue to supply AM3+ and AMD FX processors for the foreseeable future, as per AMD's official roadmap update at APU'13 [above]. Recently, AMD launched the FX-9000 series, AMD's fastest desktop processor to date. As AMD's business continues to evolve, AMD will focus on the areas of growth including support for the desktop PC enthusiast leveraging AMD's world-class processor design IP, including heterogeneous compute. AMD's FX branded products will continue to evolve and we look forward to sharing those updates in the future.

 

ORIGINAL POST :-
AMD will not release any new FX CPUs based on Steamroller in 2014 or Excavator in 2015 a leaked roadmap reveals. AMD heads towards an APU exclusive future as evidence mounts for the end of FX CPUs.
AMD will simply continue to sell current Piledriver based Vishera processors well into 2015 until the APU lineup is powerful enough to replace them.

While it's certainly disappointing to see AMD leave the high performance CPU market it's none the less fulfilling to see the company finally reaching its goal with the heterogeneous system architecture, after all it's the reason AMD purchased ATi in the mid 2000s and the company's hellbent to reap the benefits with the first ever implementation of said architecture in the form of Kaveri APUs.
It shouldn't be long before APUs start leveraging the powerful graphics engine for compute purposes and surpass traditional x86 CPUs as we know them today.

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[Bluejay0]

This is extremely disappointing.

[Thunderjolt]

This is extremely disappointing.

 

Guess Intel will be giving us even smaller increases in CPU now because they'll basically own the market now...

[Gung Pow Chicken]

I think this is going to be a really bad decision on there part, the FX series is amazing in my opinion along with alot of other AMD fans.

[lachyman]

We knew that...for like half a year now?

[Gung Pow Chicken]

Guess Intel will be giving us even smaller increases in CPU now because they'll basically own the market now..

True without FX they have no competition.

[TechFan@ic]

This is extremely disappointing.

I'm a big fan of the FX processors, our only hope now is for AMD to release six core APUs with Carrizo/Excavator.

[AndyCapets]

And that's how we see that Intel rules the CPU industry...

[needmorewood]

guess when my 8320 runs out im goin to intel whether i like it or not

[Guest GRRigger]

We knew that...for like half a year now?

Yea, but we now know they wont release any cpu till 2016. Thats... a long time. And Intel is allready in lead with 3570k and 4670k, with next haswel refresh or broadwell whatever we will get, there wont be reason to buy AMD, aside for price ( they will drop piledriver price 2H 2014 ). 

[KaareKanin]

I thought this was common knowledge :-P

[nsyedhasan]

[Joshyy]

AMD are still making APUs, Much like Intel DON'T make CPUs anymore, they make APUs (GPU+CPU on chip) so not much has changed apart from the fact they'll all have a GPU onboard from now on, most likely we will see an APU from them soon that matches the performance of the 8350

[Avcn42]

This is happening for a long time now. The latest and fastest CPU AMD has can't even compete to an older Intel mid-end one. I mean, look at the 9590. That thing is a joke. Very sad anyway, we consumers lose with this. Before there wasn't a competing AMD CPU in terms of performance, TDP, etc etc etc, but now, we have even LESS affordable competing options, only the APUs. Pretty sad, indeed.

[UnderADyingSun]

^^ They're just advancing their systems with integrated graphics que no?

[Ertman]

I bought into the platform with the expectation of at least a couple of generations after it's introduction. It has great value, but I was hoping to upgrade to the 8350/8320 successor.

[Coombzy]

the irony AMD said no new graphics cards for 2013 yet they still released the r9 and r7 series mostly rebrands but the top tier were new I think personally the same thing will happen 

[Joshyy]

This is happening for a long time now. The latest and fastest CPU AMD has can't even compete to an older Intel mid-end one. I mean, look at the 9590. That thing is a joke. Very sad anyway, we consumers lose with this. Before there wasn't a competing AMD CPU in terms of performance, TDP, etc etc etc, but now, we have even LESS affordable competing options, only the APUs. Pretty sad, indeed.

 

http://images.hardwarecanucks.com/image//skymtl/CPU/FX-9590/FX-9590-40.jpg

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They're no slouches when you use them for what they're best at, AMD just optimised for things such as AIDA as opposed to gaming (Oddly), Remeber the 8350 etc is a £150 CPU, in gaming it matches the performance of a £300 4770k in most cases. 

[tobben]

Guess Intel will be giving us even smaller increases in CPU now because they'll basically own the market now...

they have done so for a while and what do you mean even smaller increases? how is that possible? do you expect them to start backtracking and give us performance decreases instead? lol

[Fetzie]

Yea, but we now know they wont release any cpu till 2016. Thats... a long time. And Intel is allready in lead with 3570k and 4670k, with next haswel refresh or broadwell whatever we will get, there wont be reason to buy AMD, aside for price ( they will drop piledriver price 2H 2014 ).

You are aware that Intel has stopped making non-apu processors three years ago, aren't you?

[Sky Daddy]

2015 excavator, hmm

I might actually be ok with this if:

-improved 8core cpu  (significant over 8320/50)

-mantle opportunity with apu/dedicated gpu

-if it has DDR4 ram

[Frix]

Isn't this really old news? Like months ago I heard rumors going around about them ending the FX series processors.

[Guest GRRigger]

AMD are still making APUs, Much like Intel DON'T make CPUs anymore, they make APUs (GPU+CPU on chip) so not much has changed apart from the fact they'll all have a GPU onboard from now on, most likely we will see an APU from them soon that matches the performance of the 8350

Yes, but to sacrifice 40% die for igpu... and you have to pay it... and you dont use it because you are gamer  and have a GPU

Intel does make cpus, they go by the name : Xeon

[Joshyy]

Yes, but to sacrifice 40% die for igpu... and you have to pay it... and you dont use it because you are gamer  and have a GPU

Intel does make cpus, they go by the name : Xeon

 

AMD will still be making CPUs, They go by the name: Opteron 

[LAwLz]

Well that sucks. This is bad for everyone, since nobody will be pushing Intel anymore. APUs might be the future, but it's not the present, so we still need good CPUs.