News AMD targets tablets with 2W Mullins parts

AMD joining the SDP bandwagon as well? What was wrong with TDP? To be honest a very low SDP isn't as impressive as a quite low TDP would be. The use of SDP suggests their hiding something.

 

It's so confusing. I remember when they where using "PR rating", where and Athlon64 3500+ was in fact running at 2200MHz (instead of the supposed clock rating).

I think the SDP makes sense when you buy a ready to use solution, but when you have to choose the case, cooler and PSU yourself, this can be really misleading.

 

Am I the only "silly" person to design computers using SOC (on QSeven module) ?.... Well probably

 

Whoever comes up with the project names for AMD, please, for the love of god - STOP.

 

You can buy a COM using SOC, in the form of Qseven / COM-Express / XTX and plug them to a carrier board. Congatec, SECO and other make x86 and ARM version ... you still need the power supply, heatsink and case ... but I know, they are not intended for consumer computer at the first time, this is development / prototyping board. I just found it was too cool to not use it .

 

Even if 2 watt is accurate, Who will buy it, Nvidia has made a decent chip with its tegra 4 stuff but its not been picked up by anybody.

Apple and Samsung ( the only 2 players with the cash to use something like this or the nvidia socs ) Both design and use there own chips.

Personally think its way to late to be getting into the mobile / tablet sector when the major players are already established and your left fighting for scraps at the low end.

Look at Intels struggles a company with alot more budget to be throwing around, They have yet to convince anybody to take there chips in the quantities thats required. Theres even rumours that they will start selling there spare capacity to the likes of Apple.

 

oh look its a rollo post flaming AMD...


Intel are not a player in this market - they are a wannabe , and getting in late? doubt it - AMD started making the move out of X86 a few years ago , notice AM is offering ARM - next will be 64bit ARM...

you`ll start to see AMD offering ARM to desktop soon enough

 

I think the ARM license was for the security coprocessor, could be wrong though,lol

 

I would be very interested to see the actual chip power consumption and performance. It seems like some of the numbers AMD is comparing is SDP to older chips TDP (For example, Kabini is a 25w TDP chip, not SDP, but the article mentions matching its 25W...but with SDP at much higher performance).

AMD is going to need all the gains they can get and then some if they want to really break in to the market. Intel doesn't have much mobile market share, but their share is still probably 50x larger in mobile than AMD (tablet and phone I mean. If you factor in laptops its probably only 10 or 20 to 1).

Bay Trail isn't the bees knees, but it is already performing roughly at the same level as Kabini in multithreaded stuff and about 65-80% as well in single threaded stuff...that is with around abouts 1/4th the power consumption. I haven't see any comparisons to Temash, but just based on relative clock rates (since the arch is the same), at a guess Baytrail has at least twice the performance of Temash and 50% less or so of the power consumption.

So AMDs latest foray would be, for a tablet chip, still not as fast and probably not as low power. Maybe better graphics. Cherry Trail coming out by next summer though moves Bay Trail to 14nm and the GPU is going to get a 50% increase in EUs as well as going to Gen 9 Intel graphics from Gen 7 in Bay Trail...so Intel might be doubling or more graphics performance with Cherry Trail, possibly driving down power consumption further and maybe increasing CPU performance too.