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Southern Islands µarch
General Info
Arch TypeGPU
DesignerAMD
ManufacturerGlobalFoundries
Introduction2012
Process28 nm
Succession

Southern Islands (also known as Graphics Core Next) is a microarchitecture developed by AMD, replacing their older VLIW4 and VLIW5 architectures.

codenameSouthern Islands +
designerAMD +
first launched2012 +
full page nameamd/microarchitectures/southern islands +
instance ofmicroarchitecture +
manufacturerGlobalFoundries +
microarchitecture typeGPU +
nameSouthern Islands +
process28 nm (0.028 μm, 2.8e-5 mm) +