Finally we have some new information regarding AMD's upcoming 20nm Project Amur and Nolan APUs, showing AMD's push to score some major design wins in the tablet market.

According to a fresh leak and report from Digitimes.com, which is mostly focused on the new Amur SoC, we might see a big push from AMD to tablet market in 2015.

The AMD Project Amur is a silicon based on 20nm manufacturing process with support for heterogeneous system architecture (HSA) and specifically designed for Android tablets. It will be based on ARM's Cortex-A57 cores, feature AMD's Graphics Core Next (GCN) graphics part and will most likely launch as a quad-core design. It will be capable of running both Android and Linux and currently, the only known thing is that AMD is testing the SoC but there are still no details regarding the launch.




On the other hand, it appears that Nolan APU will also be based on 20nm manufacturing process. Based on x86 design with Puma+ architecture cores, the Nolan APUs are direct replacement for AMD's Beema APUs and should come in Q3 2015.

Known as the AMD Project Skybridge platform, with both Nolan and Amur in tow, AMD might be going after Nvidia's Tegra SoC, and its GCN graphics part could easily be a good competition especially since AMD has two chips, one based on x86 architecture and one based on ARM design.





Source: via Wccftech.com.