AMD Develops NUC-Like Systems with Partners

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices last week confirmed that it is working on Intel NUC-like systems with partners. Unlike its arch-rival, the company plans to deploy its low-cost/low power microarchitecture into the market of ultra-small – 4” by 4” – desktop computers.

“We are working with partners on Kabini[-based] [4”x4”] design,” said Peter Amos, a public relations manager at AMD, during a conference call.

While AMD-based systems will provide lower power consumption than their Intel-based counterparts, they will also likely to be noticeable slower in general purpose applications. Still, given the Kabini system-on-chip’s vast GPGPU capabilities, such PCs are going to be inexpensive, yet provide adequate level of performance for consumer apps.

No exact details were given regarding the NUC-like AMD-based systems, but AMD should disclose more in the upcoming week at Computex Taipei trade-show.

AMD code-named Kabini accelerated processing units integrate up to four Jaguar x86 cores, AMD Radeon HD graphics adapter based on GCN [graphics core next] architecture, DDR3 memory controller as well as rich input-output capabilities. The all-new Jaguar x86 micro-architecture, new GCN-based graphics engine and other improvements are expected to deliver an increase of more than 50% in performance in PCMark Vantage over the previous generation of AMD essential computing APUs (codenamed “Brazos 2.0”).

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