Socket AM1 is a

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, launched in April 2014 for desktop SoCs in the value segment. Socket AM1 is intended for a class of CPUs that contain both an integrated

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and a chipset, essentially forming a complete SoC implementation, and as such has pins for display,

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, and other I/O interfaces directly in the socket. AMD's first compatible CPUs, designated as

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, are 4 socketable chips in the ''Kabini'' family of the Jaguar microarchitecture, marketed under the Athlon and Sempron names and announced on April 9, 2014. Socket AM1 was initially branded as ''Socket FS1b'' before its release. The brand names are

Athlon AMD Athlon is the brand name applied to a series of x86, x86-compatible microprocessors designed and manufactured by AMD, Advanced Micro Devices. The original Athlon (now called Athlon Classic) was the first seventh-generation x86 processor a ...

and

Sempron Sempron has been the marketing name used by AMD for several different budget desktop CPUs, using several different technologies and CPU socket formats. The Sempron replaced the AMD Duron processor and competed against Intel's Celeron#Celeron D (Pr ...

. The underlying microarchitectures are

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and Puma. All products are

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, this means the

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is on the die of the APU and not on the motherboard. While the AMD mobile CPUs are available in a 722-pin package

Socket FS1 The Socket FS1 is for notebooks using AMD APU processors codenamed ''Llano'', ''Trinity'' and ''Richland'' (Socket FS1r2). "Llano"-branded products combine K10 with Cedar (VLIW5), UVD 3 video acceleration and AMD Eyefinity-based multi-monitor ...

, it is not clear whether these notebook CPUs are compatible with Socket AM1 or vice versa. Its mobile counterpart is Socket FT3 (BGA-769). At least one board is supported by

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* Codenamed: Kabini * Fabrication process:

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28 nm * L1 cache: 64 KB (32 KB data + 32 KB instruction) per core * Integrated graphics: 2nd generation

Graphics Core Next Graphics Core Next (GCN) is the codename for a series of microarchitectures and an instruction set architecture that were developed by AMD for its GPUs as the successor to its TeraScale microarchitecture. The first product featuring GCN was lau ...

(GCN)

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