Taiwanese company produces first tablet with AMD Mullins apu

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The Taiwanese company BungBungame seems to be the first manufacturer to release a tablet with an AMD Mullins apu. The soc is in BungBungame’s Photon 2 tablet. AMD announced the frugal A10 Micro-6700T apu at the end of April this year.

BungBungame will release the tablet in Japan this year, PC Watch Impress reports. Whether other countries also follow is unknown. It is a 10.1 “tablet with a resolution of 1920×1200 pixels. The processor is therefore the A10 Micro-6700T quad-core with a clock speed of 2.2 GHz and with 128 Radeon Graphics Core Next cores. AMD demonstrated at the beginning of this year that the chip can run Fifa 14 at full HD resolution.

There is also 4GB DDR3L memory and 64GB storage memory, which can be expanded via memory cards. There is also micro-usb, micro-hdmi and support for nfc, wifi-ac and bluetooth 4.0 LE. The Photon 2 weighs 580 grams and measures 261.4×182.2×10.3mm. The tablet runs Windows 8.1.

AMD announced the Mullins APUs in late April. The chip designer has managed to reduce consumption compared to previous generations and with a TDP of 4.5W, tablets with the chips could be passively cooled. The APUs are built as a soc, so that almost all functionality – from CPU and GPU cores to USB controllers – is contained in one chip. AMD, like Intel, is trying to gain a foothold in the tablet market, which is dominated by ARM socs. Where Intel gains market share by encouraging many manufacturers to produce products with Atom-socs, AMD has not yet succeeded in doing so.

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