AMD Airs Embedded Fusion Processors With DirectX 11 Graphics

From DailyTech: While flashy PC CPUs have long grabbed most of the media attention, embedded CPUs have become an integral business for chipmakers like Intel. AMD has over the last decade become a critical competitor in this market, with designs like its Geode and 64-bit embedded Opteron chips.

Today AMD announced [press release] its latest and greatest state of the art embedded processor lineup, the G-Series, its answer to Intel's 45 nm Sodaville and Tunnel Creek embedded processor lines.

Intel's Sodaville is a single-core processor based on the Atom core commonly found in netbooks. It is perhaps best known as the processor powering Sony's Internet TV. It features an on-die SGX535 GPU from PowerVR -- the same GPU found in the iPhone. It is clocked at 1.2 GHz (Tunnel Creek models are clocked at 600 MHz to 1.3 GHz). Its GPU can only support OpenGL 2.0 and DirectX 10.1 Shader Model 4.1.

By contrast, AMD's new line supports DirectX 11, OpenGL 4.0, and OpenCL. The units pack the Bobcat core, the same core design found in Brazos chips -- AMD's Fusion processor for laptops.

Whereas Intel currently does not offer dual-core embedded processor, AMD is offering both single-core and dual-core variants of its G-Series SoC. The various models, along with clock speeds and power consumption are seen below, direct from AMD:

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