14 DAY TRIAL // When it revealed their10.1-inch AMD-powered Windows 7 tablet earlier this week, Acer has been particularly quiet about the hardware this thing is supposed to run, but latest reports bring us more informations in this area as manufacturing sources state the slate will use a AMD Bobcat-based processor.
Cited by DigiTimes, these sources actually go further into details and state this will use an AMD C-50 chip that will make part of the Brazos platform lineup.
Based on AMD's new Fusion architecture, the C-50 features dual Bobcat cores, 9W TDP and is clocked at 1GHz.
Its integrated graphics unit, dubbed the Radeon HD 6250 comes with 80 GPU cores clocked at 280MHz.
Although this doesn't sound extremely impressive, AMD's new platform is able to deliver an impressive graphics performance, as we reported a while back, the AMD E-350 chip that was previewed earlier this month coming on top of Intel's Clarkdale processors in some gaming benchmarks.
Although the AMD E-350 features a higher clocked graphics core (500MHz compared to the 280MHz of the C-50) the GPU core count is the same for both chips so graphics performance should be better that what we usually see from current tablets and MIDs.
In addition to its great graphics performance, the C-50 APU should also be able to outperform Atom processors in some benchmarks, most of the early previews available for the Brazos platform stating that OS responsiveness is improved compared to that of Intel's Atom CPU.
In addition to the Bobcat-based processor, Acer's Windows 7 slate also comes with dual 1.3-megapixel webcams together with WiFi and 3G connectivity, its weight being kept under 1kg.
As Acer has claimed when it made the tablet public, the slate will become available sometime in February 2011, no further informations regarding pricing being available at this time.