AMD Amur: ARM Cortex-A57 SoC for tablets appear in 2015

The AMD Amur 64-bit processor based on the latest ARM Cortex-A57 cores of the American chip manufacturer wants apparently enter next year into tablet business. When AMD first introduced ARM SoCs for servers, you will probably also equip future tablets so. The market is really competitive and very big names like Qualcomm, Intel, MediaTek and Nvidia govern this current. Since it is difficult for AMD to find manufacturers who want to sit on the Amur at AMD Tablets . The same is also observed for AMD x86 processors for tablets. There, the market is even dominated by Intel only – because you have to fool yourself.

The AMD Amur processor will be there with the latest ARM Cortex-A57 cores. The quad-core SoC apparently omitted on the big.LITTLE technology and takes only four powerful cores in claim. Companies such as Qualcomm with the Snapdragon 810 , MediaTek, Huawei or with the HiSilicon Kirin 925 bet on four Cortex-A57 and Cortex-A53 four cores to distribute the power better and also to save energy so in the end. Accordingly, will only have to prove how powerful the AMD Amur, when this as “Turbo” the Cortex-A53 cores missing, and how well the energy efficiency fails. Since the first 64-bit ARM processors but to have only the start of 2015, AMD could not so far behind in the development and availability, as one might fear perhaps. So far, you have the tablets and smartphones basically slept through completely.

AMD puts the Amur own processor of course on a custom graphics controller with HD-10000 series and its own chipset. The SoC could thus be significantly more optimized and thus work better in the Tablet. Without having seen the first benchmarks, but you should be resist a hasty judgment. In any case, one would then games and apps for the processor to adjust, or live with a worse graphics – if this does not happen. If the AMD Amur well received by the manufacturers, which happens automatically. Otherwise, we unfortunately see this more as a niche product.

AMD Amur: ARM Cortex-A57 SoC for tablets appear in 2015