AMD touts new low-cost desktop chipset, AM1

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AMD touts new low-cost desktop chipset, AM1

 

Developing markets targeted with $60 price point for chip and mobo combined.

 

 

The developing world may be turning toward cheap and portable smartphones, but AMD seems confident that what those markets need is more desktop computing power.

Enter the AM1 chipset, an SoC for desktops launching April 9 and aimed at developing markets. You may recognize AM1 as a sibling of the Kabini family of chips, which launched last year with dual- and quad-core Jaguar CPUs and GPUs on the same chipset?very much resembling what landed in both the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 a few months later.

While Kabini is destined primarily for portables, AMD wants the AM1 to dominate the low-cost, expandable desktop market, and at an estimated $60 starting price for the chipset and the motherboard combined, it's appropriate for that task.

However, with that price point comes some compromises. While AMD has yet to announce formal specs for the AM1 series, motherboard manufacturers ASRock and Gigabyte say that AM1 will be limited to a 25W max power draw from the chipset, along with a restriction to PCIe 2.0 that might bottleneck multiple video cards.

 

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[+Warwagon MVC]

I really hope they aren't as slow as their E-series. THis one guy got a laptop with like an AMD E-300 or something and he said "My laptop is also really slow" ... I wanted to say "That's because your CPU is a piece of ######'