During last week conference call, AMD has announced that it is also working on a Intel NUC-like 4" by 4" platform based on wide offer of Kabini APUs and some of them have already showed up at Computex show.

The announcement came from AMD's PR manager, Peter Amos, who noted that AMD is currently working with partners on Kabini-based 4" by 4" design. AMD Kabini might not be as fast as Intel's Core i7-4500U chip but wide offer of A4-5000, E3-3000, E1-2500 and E1-2100 Kabini APUs will certainly provide much better performance/price and should be enough for any HTPC or SFF office computer.

In case you missed it before, the Kabini APUs feature up to four Jaguar-based x86 CPU cores and Radeon HD GPU based on GCN architecture. It also brings DDR3 support, USB 3.0 and pretty much everything you would need from such a platform. When compared to Brazos 2.0, a previous AMD platform aimed at that market, Kabini APUs should bring up to 50 percent performance improvement.





Source: Anandtech.com, Xbitlabs.com.