AMD would be in the second quarter of 2012, a new variant of its Brazos platform want to introduce. The apus of the Brazos-T platform, it’s probably not faster than the current chips, but considerably more economical.
An internal presentation from AMD, which by the website Donanimhaber, er, shows the roadmap of the accelerated processing units that the company in the coming years, wants to introduce. The next chips would be due to a lower power consumption, more suitable for tablets.
The Brazos-T platform consists of the new Hondo-apu, combined with the Hudson M2T chipset. Hondo still consists of two Bobcat cores at 1GHz and a Radeon HD 6250, but the chip would be half, more fuel-efficient than the Desna-apu. To that end, AMD some features removed. So did Hondo not support vga connections, and sata600 more, and also the pci-e controller is removed.
AMD focuses seen those changes clearly on the tablet market. The tdp should be low enough to the chip without active cooling to work. According to the roadmap must Brazos-T in the second quarter release, along with Windows 8. In 2013, the Brazos-T followed by the Samara platform, that the power consumption will further reduce, a better gpu and the i/o performance improves.
