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12-15W consumption + HDMI 2.0 + hardware decoder 4k H.264/265 + (DDR3)/DDR4.
Sounds good to me.
https://www.amd.com/Documents/merlin...duct-brief.pdf
Sounds pefect. (formely 'Merlin Falcon').
12-15W consumption + HDMI 2.0 + hardware decoder 4k H.264/265 + (DDR3)/DDR4.
Sounds good to me.
https://www.amd.com/Documents/merlin...duct-brief.pdf
Well hopefully that is what we will get on socket AM4 to start with while we wait for Zen to come out.
Hope it will be faster than Zen to come out. I would like to see some progress Q2/2016. Ideally have full driver support for Linux/Kodi by autumn so I can replace my current rigOriginally Posted by DanceswithUnix
These are just Carrizo APUs, no? So already available in laptops, in that TDP range. I doubt we'll see desktop versions dropping as low as 12W TDP - no differentiation there. Although you can always downclock/undervolt desktop chips to save power, and if we get configurable TDPs on the consumer version maybe you'll be able to lock them as low as 35W?
S/A say that these are *not* carrizo, they are a new set of dies because the usual harvested parts couldn't get down to the price and power level required: http://semiaccurate.com/2016/02/23/a...-soc-families/
OP's link was for R-series APUs, your link is for new G-series APUs: different beasts. And the new G series embedded stuff looks very interesting indeed, TBH. Particularly interested in the LX range: Geode for the third millenium
Sorry, you are right. They all use the same BGA layout, and I was just skim reading whilst some code compiled so not paying much attentionOP's link was for R-series APUs, your link is for new G-series APUs: different beasts. And the new G series embedded stuff looks very interesting indeed, TBH. Particularly interested in the LX range: Geode for the third millenium
Bit scary though, wonder if we will see the super chopped down chip turning up in a 15.6" screen laptop because it uses the same BIOS and board as Carrizo but is really cheap
Ahem...
Wouldn't surprise me at all. Then again, even a 1GHz dual core Jaguar with a 64 shader GPU would make a perfectly respectable entry level laptop. I'd rather see it in a 12"-13" model mind you.... *sigh*... Bit scary though, wonder if we will see the super chopped down chip turning up in a 15.6" screen laptop because it uses the same BIOS and board as Carrizo but is really cheap
Alternatively we might see it in some cheap NUC/STX-set-top-box-style devices, which would be quite good IMNSHO....
Ahh. Reading the links again I think I intended to inform about the G series also. Ah well.OP's link was for R-series APUs, your link is for new G-series APUs: different beasts. And the new G series embedded stuff looks very interesting indeed, TBH. Particularly interested in the LX range: Geode for the third millenium
In the mean time, what are the chances for a new APU family for the AM1 platform? Couldn't find any 'really' definitive answers.
That's questionable. When AM1 was released as a platform there was a lot of talk of several generations of APU on the platform, but we've had a couple of iterations of small-core silicon since then and no new retail APUs. I can only guess that the take-up was so small they decided there wasn't a big enough market to justify new APUs. I suppose there's probably no technical reason they can't package any single-memory-channel SOC with the appropriate IO to go into AM1, but they'd need the confidence that such a product would sell in sufficient numbers to justify the investment....
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