AMD Announces DX11 Ready Fusion Chips

The product will be a direct competitor to Intel’s Atom SoC offerings. Labelled as the “G-series”, the new chip specifications are as follows:

• 1 or 2 x86 “Bobcat” CPU cores with 1MB L2 cache, 64-bit Floating Point Unit
• Up to 1.6GHz
• 9W and 18W TDP
• Array of SIMD Engines
• DirectX® 11 capable graphics
• Industry-leading 3D and graphics processing
• 3rd Generation Unified Video Decoder
• Power management features, including C6 and power gating
• DDR3 800-1066 memory with support for 64 bit channel and 2 DIMMs
• Ball Grid Array (BGA) package
• 890mm² physical footprint, including the AMD Fusion I/O Controller Hub

The different variants are shown below:

AMD states that the SoCs will be available immediately. The only downside however, is the 18 watt power-draw for the higher-end offerings.

Now all we need is a few of those in our ATM machines and…

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