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AMD 'Trinity' makes debut in Embedded
AMD launched the AMD Embedded R-Series accelerated processing unit (APU) platform.
The AMD Embedded R-Series APU combines the new 'Piledriver' CPU architecture, an evolution of the 'Bulldozer' architecture, with discrete-class, DirectX 11-capable AMD Radeon 7000 Series graphics in a heterogeneous multicore embedded processing platform.
© AMD“AMD pioneered the embedded APU to offer our customers a high-performance, power-efficient, small form-factor embedded processor,” said Buddy Broeker, director, AMD Embedded Solutions. “With the AMD Embedded R-Series, we are taking our APU technology to the next level. By leveraging its seamlessly integrated heterogeneous system architecture, developers can tap into a high-performance and efficient parallel processing engine to accelerate their graphics- and compute-intensive applications, all while using industry-standard libraries such as OpenCL and DirectCompute.” The R-Series comes with up to four of AMD’s latest Piledriver x86 cores and 384 parallel compute units. Furthermore, AMD will guarantee a 5 availability and offers a dedicated embedded service group. AMD targets a wide range of uses for the chips such as Digital Signage, Casino Gaming, Video Conferencing, Point-of-Sale, Medical Imaging or Surveillance & Security. For applications that benefit from multiple displays, such as casino gaming or video walls in digital signage, the AMD Embedded R-Series APU supports connection to four independent displays, which can be utilized to display four independent video feeds or a single video feed distributed across a four-panel display. By adding a discrete AMD Radeon Embedded graphics card to the system, the number of independent displays can increase up to 101. A few embedded companies have already signed up to incorporate the new platform in future designs.
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