AMD has long signaled that embedded chips will play a major role in its future, and it’s backing up that claim by providing a glance at its 2014 roadmap. The highlight is Bald Eagle, a 35-watt x86 processor designed for demanding tasks like gaming; it should include up to four Steamroller cores, and it will optionally sport on-chip Graphics Core Next video. As we all know it is fast enough to be useful for PC video cards, not just the usual set-top boxes and smart TVs.
Two system-on-chip designs are also joining AMD’s lineup. Hierofalcon is built with data centers in mind, and carries up to eight ARM Cortex-A57 cores; Steppe Eagle, meanwhile, is a combination of upgraded Jaguar x86 cores and GCN that should speed up AMD’s
low-power G-series processors. With the exception of Hierofalcon, all of the new embedded chips should be available in the first half of next year.
It is such a great piece of news for us, isn’t it?
OS-STORE forward news.
