AMD has posted a mysterious video as a teaser for an announcement to be made on October 9. Could it be Hondo?
A flashlight-equipped duo discovers in an engineering lab something "beyond explanation", something "mutated" and "cool". The video ends with what apparently is a secret notebook, but "not a laptop".
The product is not quite as mysterious as it may sound, as the hints match up closely with previous claims made by AMD about its Hondo APU. Hondo and the Hudson M2T FCH (Fusion Controller Hub) will become the Brazos-T platform that is AMD's x86 play to compete, together with Intel's Atom, against a wave of ARM rivals that will become available in Windows RT notebooks. Hondo's primary target in that market will be Nvidia's Tegra 3.
SemiAccurate posted supposed specifications of AMD's platform, which are to receive the commercial names of the Z-60 APU and the A55T FCH. The dual-core CPU will run at 1.0 GHz and integrate a Radeon HD6250 graphics chip at 276 MHz.
I think you guys want to look for something called Piledriver...
If you even plan on gaming on the 6250, you have problems.
There's a difference between budget builds and gaming builds.
but yea a beter gpu would have been nice. . . .
the cpu is designed for barebone pc's which are only like the size of a router.
"I see dead people!"
Exactly what I was thinking. That would be more scary than whatever crap thjey're coing out with now.
I think you guys want to look for something called Piledriver...
WinRT may have Microsoft money behind it, but it will have the same chicken and egg problem as Linux. Nobody will want it for the desktop because it has no software, and nobody will develop any because nobody uses it for anything other than mobile devices.
If you even plan on gaming on the 6250, you have problems.
There's a difference between budget builds and gaming builds.
Wouldn't be to bad if openGL support was good and had Win9x drivers then it could do some retro
WinRT is strictly for ARM at this juncture. We've established that Hondo is an AMD x86 chip, and thus will be running Windows 8 (x86). So it can run both the new RunTime apps, and legacy Windows software. Just about anything you can throw at a notebook with a C-50 will run fine here too.
- that's the real scary part, and the part where the bulldozer sucked more than a vacuum cleaner on steroids
Yea what about it, it's still going to be far behind Intel. Piledriver still won't come close to competing with Intel. Even IF it has the performance increase AMD is claiming Piledriver still will only perform on the level of first generation I core processors, still far behind Intel. Like I said get back to me when AMD actually makes something that isn't slow crap that is two and a half generation behind.
You know they act goofy in the video on purpose for us geeks and nerds, right? Or did it just totally go over your head?
Wow, I didn't know they were designed for barebones pc, I would think if the competition is the Tegra 3, they are destined for mobile space, tablets and smart phones, and the occasional netbook. But let me know what PC, contains a Tegra 3.