HTPC

AMD’s APU Fusion solution

• Single or Dual-core 64-bit processors codenamed Ontario, Zacate and with the followings:
  • made on 40 nm CMOS process
  • support for DDR3 1066 MHz memory
  • 9W or 18W TDP
• Radeon HD 6xxx GPU on 40 nm process
  • Cedar graphics core with 80 SP
  • DirectX 11, OpenGL 4.0 and OpenCL 1.1
  • UNB/MC Bus interface
  • no double-precision FP
  • angle independent anisotropic filtering, UVD 3
  • Eyefinity capabilities, supporting up to 3 outputs

Mobile chipset: A50M (Hudson-M1) 4.7W TDP

Hudson Chipset comparision

Overall, AMD E-350 series platforms is suitable for HTPC. It can do hardware HD decoding. Overall power is around 40W. There are plenty motherboard built around E-350 platforms. We’ll introduce them in next blog.