New low cost AMD hardware.
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AMD has announced some new low cost hardware which could be very interesting, especially with AMD's OSS llinux drivers improving rapidly. From ArsTechnica:

Quote: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.

$60 for a CPU, GPU and motherboard could give the RPI a run for its money.

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/03/a...-dead-end/
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that article Wrote:Still, AMD's announcement pulls no punches, making direct comparisons to Intel's mobile-minded Bay Trail platform by showing off a list of what it says AM1 does better: higher memory speeds, 16 GB memory support, an upgradable socket, and Windows XP support. The list concludes with a frank declaration: "Avoid a dead-end platform and choose AMD."

What a weird list of "advantages". 16GB, at this point in the market, how many people care about that? Likewise upgradeable socket - who cares, are there some guarantees about the longevity of the socket format? Windows XP... hmmm, I guess that's important in POS and embedded applications.
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