14 DAY TRIAL // Texas-based processor designer Advanced Micro Devices is launching today the Embedded R-Series Platform, on its official website. These are basically Trinity CPUs that are destined for embedded applications.
In the performance computing world, energy efficiency is mostly a new concept. The embedded market, on the other hand, is more about capability and how much performance can you get while maintaining a certain level of power consumption.
While during last week’s Trinity launch, battery life was a very important topic, this week we’ll concentrate less on performance or battery life and more on the low power and low heat dissipation.
AMD’s new embedded CPUs are much more powerful than previous solutions and have already been adopted in several new designs by lots of companies like the following:
Advantech--Innocore -- System solution for high-performance casino gaming applications Axiomtek -- High-performance MiniITX motherboard Congatec -- High-performance COM Express module DFI -- High-performance COM Express module iBase -- System solution for high-performance digital signage applications J&W IPC -- Custom form factor embedded motherboard with support for up to 10 DisplayPort displays Quixant -- System solution for high-performance casino gaming applications SHENZHEN XINZHIXIN -- High-performance MiniITX motherboard
In graphic-intensive applications, AMD’s new solutions will likely trounce Intel’s embedded offerings just like AMD showed in the benchmarks above.
Although the 30 watts A10-4600M is the most impressive, the 17 watts model will likely get the most design wins.
Doing lots of graphics work in embedded applications is not usually a likely situation, but as graphic representations in kiosks or any other graphical user interface (GUI) get more suggestive and 3D, AMD’s APUs will surely have a new field to show their abilities.