AMD extends Jaguar soc to 6W for fanless designs

[NTMBK]

I'm still holding out for AMD to put out an HSA-capable x86/ARM APU SoC. Imagine running Windows and Android side-by-side. Total app compatibility. We can dream...

No need for the ARM part. Intel has put a lot of money and effort into making sure that there is a fully working Android x86 stack, complete with an ARM-to-x86 binary translator for apps which use ARM-native binaries. They just need to start shipping x86 Dalvik as an app inside Windows.

 

[sontin]

Sorry that i compared this SoC to another SoC in an actual buyable product. I will go back to the old crappy Atom SoCs so that we can finally say something nice about AMD's Kabini products.


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[mikk]

As I said, the only laptop that fits that bill is the Acer Aspire V5, which you can only get in the States, which is not where I live.

This is not accurate. I could buy in Germany: http://geizhals.at/de/?cat=nb&xf=883_Radeon+HD+8~29_AMD+A6-1~2647_15~29_AMD+A4-1


Of course Temash, Kabini, Richland notebooks are very rare in general.

 

[bullzz]

sometimes I feel AMD's sales and marketing team is non existant

@sontin
keyword - "design wins". shield is a home grown product. so to compare s800 reference model to shield seems fair

 

[Gikaseixas]

sometimes I feel AMD's sales and marketing team is non existant

They need to make these lower performance parts more appealing to customers but i was very surprised to see a lot of Radeon powered laptops both in Portugal and Spain last week. The stores are filled with Radeon powered machines, very unexpected to me at least.

 

[monstercameron]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Knmu1OQ2OtI

amd bobcat c-50 on android 4.3 benchmarks, not bad for opensource drivers. Cant wait for uvd and dpm patches to incorporated.

this is the performance you get with bobcat unoptimized then what would an official amd android rom with proper drivers look like.

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Originally Posted by Enigmoid
At that clockspeed the only thing you are looking at is x86 compatability.

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Now take that score, divide it by two (dual core) and reduce it by 1/3 (1 ghz vs 1.5 ghz).

GPU will still be pretty good.

This is kind of a weird comment in reference to an AMD CPU but, those back of the envelope calculations show that while the total throughput will be lower, single-thread performance will be around 12% higher.

As long as battery life is still good, better single-thread performance plus x86 compatibility seems like a win to me. That being said, I still would think very long and hard about getting a Jaguar-based tablet because it does not support connected standby. I read somewhere that Jaguar's successor should have it, so I'd expect AMD to really come into its own in the tablet market then.

My personal plan is to get something like this and whatever the best Baytrail dockable tablet is with wacom digitizer.

I'm still holding out for AMD to put out an HSA-capable x86/ARM APU SoC. Imagine running Windows and Android side-by-side. Total app compatibility. We can dream...

closer than you imagine.

 

[pelov]

HP has a ton of kabini/temash based cheap notebooks.

http://www.shopping.hp.com/en_US/hom...redPricing-asc

Hmm. Tegra 4 based tablet/notebook (detachable keyboard).

1200p touchscreen.

$479. (little expensive).

I was scoping that dockable tablet out earlier. It's only about 5 hrs battery life undocked, but there's an additional battery with the keyboard dock. Still, $500 for an Android tablet with a keyboard+battery seems like it's too pricey. I'd rather just get a laptop and a Nexus 7

 

[Enigmoid]

I was scoping that dockable tablet out earlier. It's only about 5 hrs battery life undocked, but there's an additional battery with the keyboard dock. Still, $500 for an Android tablet with a keyboard+battery seems like it's too pricey. I'd rather just get a laptop and a Nexus 7

Agree completely.

 

[monstercameron]

http://blog.vdcresearch.com/embedded_hw/2013/07/sometimes-less-can-be-more-a-lot-more.html