Now that AMD has pushed its first consumer Fusion processors out of the nest and into the wider world, the company has set its sights on the embedded market with the new G-Series.
These chips were announced last month, but there weren't any real details at the time. Now the manufacturer has properly launched the G-Series chips - as a part of the eBrazos platform - and unsurprisingly, they aren't really that new at all.
These are pretty much the same 'Bobcat' derived cores that are starting to turn up in netbooks and ultraportables in the consumer space. That means that they are available with one or two cores at clock speeds of up to 1.6GHz, a maximum of 1MB L2 cache and TDPs of 9W or 18W, depending on the configuration.
The chips also come equipped with the same DirectX 11-capable graphics core, giving the chips a fair amount of graphical muscle when compared to other processors in the same category. It also manages to fit inside a package with a meagre 890mm2 footprint, including the I/O hub.
Apparently Advansus, Compulab, Congatec, Fujitsu, Haier, iEi, Kontron, Mitec, Quixant, Sintrones, Starnet, WebDT and Wyse - among other - are signed up to ship products using the new chips over the next few weeks. They are likely to be used in graphics-intensive solutions including digital signage, internet-ready set top boxes (STBs), thin clients, point-of-sale kiosks and small form factor PCs.
According to Patrick Patla, corporate vice president and general manager of AMD's Server and Embedded Division, the chips enable partners to use "the unique advancements of the AMD Embedded G-Series APU to develop a brand new generation of highly differentiated, energy-efficient, small form-factor embedded systems that can deliver the vivid visual experience expected in our always-connected world".
