Over the last few months or AMD has been slowly dropping hints about their upcoming APU and CPU revisions. In the interim there have been some updates and a pretty nice surprise in the budget-oriented area. While many have focused upon the upcoming Zen microarchitecture, exactly where it would fit into the 2016 (and beyond) product stack wasn't exactly evident. In another one of the fits and spurts of information, AMD has begun clarifying at least one part of their future indicatives: the Bristol Ridge platform.

If you remember some of the previous articles I wrote about this topic, AMD's future APUs and general processing cores will be consolidated into a single socket type. Dubbed AM4, this socket will be the foundation upon which many (but not all) products will be built upon. As with previous generations there will be additional embedded solutions that won't come with a socketed design but discussing those will have to wait for a little while since they?re currently residing ?beyond the horizon?.

That AM4 socket will actually be utilized in two separate platforms: Bristol Ridge and Summit Ridge, the former of which will be used for upcoming APUs. Summit Ridge meanwhile will be very much targeted towards standard next generation CPUs but those are still some time away. Meanwhile, the focus here is its notebook iteration which is meant to replace and supersede existing Carrizo APUs.