AMD has officially released its newest embedded products roadmap that shows upcoming new products and market strategy for 2014 and beyond and certainly represents quite a push into embedded market and devices such as industrial controls, automation, gaming machines, thin clients, digital signage, military/aero, imaging, set-top-box and communications infrastructure.

According to the roadmap, AMD will bring the the Adelaar discrete GPU, the x86 Bald Eagle APU SoC, the x86 Steppe Eagle APU SoC, and, last but not the least, the ARM-Cortex A57 based Hierofalcon CPU SoC. Although it did not shed any specific details regarding each of these new chips, it did shed some light on them to show what could we expect in the future of the embedded market.

The Adelaar GPU will be based on the 28nm Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture, pack 2GB of GDDR5 memory and will offer up to 72GB/s of memory throughput. The new Adelaar GPU will be a successor of the current 40nm AMD Radeon E6460/E6760 GPUs and, according to AMD, should bring "rich 3D graphics, multi-display support and support for DirectX® 11.1, OpenGL 4.2 and both Windows and Linux."

The next in line is the x86 based Bald Eagle APU SoC that should be aimed at the high-performance next-generation digial signange and embedded digital gaming markets. It features 2 or 4 Steamroller-based CPU cores and pack AMD Radeon HD 9000 series GPU. It is also based on 28nm architecture and will have 17 to 35W TDP.

AMD will also push into low-power embedded market with the 28nm Steppe Eagle x86 APU that is based on 2 to 4 enhanced Jaguar cores, have AMD Radeon HD 8000 series GPU and have 5 to 25W TDP. This is pretty similar to what we will be able to see in the next-gen consoles and it is quite obvious that AMD can customize the chip depending on the actual target usage.

The last but not the least, and certainly quite important, is AMD's first ARM-based CPU 28nm SoC that will feature 4 to 8 ARM Cortex-A57 cores clocked at up to 2GHz, feature integrated 10 Gigabit Ethernet and have a 15 to 30W TDP. This one also aims at high-performance market segment and will also feature PCI-Express gen 3 interface and enhanced security with ARM TrustZone. It will target embedded data center applications, communications infrastructure and industrial solutions.

AMD is making quite a significant push into the embedded market and since is it is predicted that the embedded market is in its growth stage and expected to grow by up to 36 percent by 2016, it is no wonder that AMD wants a piece of that cake, and certainly has a lot to offer to it.









Source: AMD.com.