AMD JAGUAR Coming soon!!!

AMD has expanded his offer with embedded solutions with new generation of APUs that are based on architecture called Jaguar. New APU's or SoC's has TDP which varies from 9 to 25 watts depending on the model, and they will replace existing embedded APU solutions from series G on market. The architecture of Jaguar is already used on chip that will power Playstation 4 and apparently new Xbox.

28-nanometer SoC's contain two to four Jaguar cores and Radeon HD graphics from 8000 series which is based on GCN architecture. There is also one channel DDR3 controller and communicational component including Four PCIe x1, one PCIe x4, 8 USB 2.0, 2  USB3.0, 2xSATA 6Gb/s, logic for access to SD cards and other interfaces.

The new generation APU's presents one step further in transition to HSA or Heterogeneous System Architecture. X86 and graphic cores in new APU's share L2 cache which speeds operations of GPUs. Of cores the emphasis here is not on the 3D performance, but the use of GPU for computation via OpenCL.  The idea is that this kind of energy-saving chip can still offer the high performance required for such analysis of real-time video. AMD is precisely in this context, is planning to establish themselves as competition ARM SoC's and Intel's Atom in SoC variants.

Specifically, AMD boasts that the new SoC's offer 113% better x86 performance compared to previous generation APU's or 125% better performance than the Intel Atom. When it comes to graphics, the new generation is 20% percent better than the old and 430% better than the graphics that boast Intel the same market segment.

 Finally, it is interesting that in a logo new generation G platform is a small letter "X". Since the AMD already announced Opteron-based ARM architecture, we are not at all surprised if in the near future on the market phenomena and AMD's SoC's that integrate Radeon graphics and ARM core.