AMD Launches ultra-low-power Ryzen embedded APUs

While it doesn't get the same attention as their high-profile mobile, desktop, or server CPU offerings, AMD's embedded division is an important fourth platform for the chipmaker. To that end, this week the company is revealing its lowest-power Ryzen processors ever, with a new series of embedded chips that are designed for use in ultra-compact commercial and industrial systems.

The chips in question are the AMD Ryzen Embedded R1102G and the AMD Ryzen Embedded R1305G SoCs. These parts feature a 6 W or a configurable 8 W - 10 W TDP, respectively. Both SoCs feature two Zen cores with or without simultaneous multithreading, AMD Radeon Vega 3 graphics, 1 MB L2 cache, 4 MB L3 cache, a single channel or a dual-channel memory controller, and two 10 GbE ports.

Two quite capable chips. I've always liked these low-power chips and have, on numerous occasions, pondered buying the devices these kinds of chips tend to end up in - small industrial machines, thin clients, that sort of stuff - since they're cheap and abundant on eBay. Sadly, I can never quite find a use for them.