{"id":1570,"date":"2011-05-24T11:00:30","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T03:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.banbanli.net\/blog\/?p=1570"},"modified":"2011-05-25T10:59:23","modified_gmt":"2011-05-25T02:59:23","slug":"amd-announces-very-low-power-apus-for-embedded-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.banbanli.net\/blog\/?p=1570","title":{"rendered":"AMD announces very low power APUs for embedded market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Digital Signage today<\/p>\n<div id=\"article_body\">\n<p>AMD today announced the immediate availability of two new AMD  Embedded G-Series APUs (Accelerated Processing Units) with thermal  design power ratings of 5.5 and 6.4 watts, up to a 39 percent power  savings compared to earlier versions.<\/p>\n<p>The very low power consumption and small 361-square-millimeter  package is suited for compact, fanless embedded systems like digital  signage, kiosks, mobile industrial devices and many of the new emerging  industry-standard small form factors such as <a title=\"Qseven\" href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.qseven-standard.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Qseven<\/a>, according to AMD.  The new low-power offering for the embedded market features one or two  low-power x86 &#8220;<a title=\"Bobcat\" href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.coolaler.com\/showthread.php?t=250257\" target=\"_blank\">Bobcat<\/a>&#8221; CPU cores and a discreet class DirectX 11-capable  GPU on a single die.<\/p>\n<p>A fanless solution is crucial for many small embedded systems where  the added cost for an active cooling system can be prohibitive or for  environments where silent operation is a key requirement. Additionally,  many embedded products are deployed in harsh environmental conditions  where the presence of a fan represents a potential failure point for the  system.<\/p>\n<p>According to AMD, systems based on the new low-power AMD Embedded  G-Series platform include an industrial mobile device from Amtek, a  Pico-ITX single board computer from <a title=\"Axiotek\" href=\"http:\/\/www.axiomtek.com.tw\/\" target=\"_blank\">Axiomtek<\/a>, a Qseven form factor  computer-on-module from <a title=\"datacap\" href=\"http:\/\/www.datacap.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">datakamp<\/a>, and a fanless digital signage platform  from <a title=\"iBase\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ibase.com.tw\/2009\/TC\/digital_signage.html\" target=\"_blank\">iBASE<\/a>. Additional customers are expected to bring new products to  market in the coming quarters.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Digital Signage today AMD today announced the immediate availability of two new AMD Embedded G-Series APUs (Accelerated Processing Units) with thermal design power ratings of 5.5 and 6.4 watts, up to a 39 percent power savings compared to earlier versions. The very low power consumption and small 361-square-millimeter package is suited for compact, fanless &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.banbanli.net\/blog\/?p=1570\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AMD announces very low power APUs for embedded market<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,41,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily","category-digital-signage-today","category-signage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.banbanli.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.banbanli.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.banbanli.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.banbanli.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.banbanli.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1570"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.banbanli.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1576,"href":"http:\/\/www.banbanli.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570\/revisions\/1576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.banbanli.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.banbanli.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.banbanli.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}