At the start of last month, Sapphire officially launched what the company has called the “smallest PC in the world,” and now it is working on a revised version that will swap the current Intel Atom CPU for an AMD E-350 accelerated processing unit.
The current version of the
EDGE-HD Mini PC is powered by a dual-core Intel Atom D510 processor which runs at 1.66GHz, has 1MB of cache and an estimated TDP of 13W.
In comparison, the AMD APU that is supposed to take its place features dual out-of-order Bobcat cores that are clocked at 1.6GHz as well as an on-die GPU, dubbed the Radeon HD 6310.
This is powered by 80 stream processors, 8 texturing units and 4 ROPs and also features the company's UVD 3 media decoding engine that enables the
APU to playback 1080p Blu-ray content.
The rest of the hardware configuration of the EDGE-HD Mini PC is comprised out of 2GB of system memory (DDR2 in the original version), a 250GB 2.5-inch SATA hard drive and a wide series of connectivity options, including Gigabit Ethernet and 802.11 b/g/n wireless.
Right now, we don't know if the new version of the machine will feature the same specifications, but I, for one, don't expect to see so many changes between the two models.
As far as the available connector ports are regarded, the system features two USB 2.0 ports, an audio-in and one line-out jack, an Ethernet port, as well as VGA and HDMI video outputs.
In addition to the Zacate E-350 version of the EDGE-HD,
Sapphire is also working on a version that will use the Atom D525 processor.
According to the
Hardware-Infos website, Sapphire said that a prototype of the AMD-powered Mini PC should have been present at CeBIT, but, unfortunately, it hasn't managed to arrive on time.
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