CeBIT 2012: AMD Socket FM2 Motherboards with A85 FCH to Arrive in June

Together with the launch of its next-gen Trinity APUs, AMD also plans to release a new chipset for these processors called the A85 FCH (Fusion Controller Hub), which support the company’s new FM2 socket.

The first motherboards based on this chipset will arrive in June 2012, according to the ComputerBase website, which has received this information from industry sources present at the CeBIT fair.

Little is known about the A85 FCH as far as its specifications are concerned, but USB-IF revealed late last year that native USB 3.0 support was to be expected.

Starting with the summer of 2012, consumers will be able to pair motherboards powered by the AMD A85 Fusion Controller Hub with A10- or A8-Series desktop APUs.

The most advanced of these APUs will be launched in the A10-Series, which previous reports suggest includes the A10-5800K and the A10-5700 processors.

Both of these chips pack four processing cores, 4MB of Level 2 cache memory, support for AMD’s Turbo Core technology and DDR3-1866 memory, as well as an on-board Radeon HD 7660D GPU with 384 shaders.

In the case of the A10-5800K the operating speed of the CPU is set at 3.8GHz (4.2GHz max Turbo), while its smaller brother has a base clock of 3.4GHz and 4GHz maximum Turbo.

In the A8-Series, AMD will release the A8-5600K and A8-5500 APUs, both of these chips featuring pretty much the same specs as the A8-Series Trinity processors, but coming with the slower HD 7560D GPU which packs 256 Radeon cores.

The base clock speed of the A8-5500 is set at 3.2GHz (3.7GHz max Turbo), while the A8-6500K works at 3.6GHz with a 3.9GHz maximum Turbo speed.

More details regarding the specifications of the AMD A85 chipset are expected to arrive in the next couple of months, as we get nearer to Trinity’s launch.

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