AMD G-Series APUs Powering a Real-time Operating System

[madooo12]

[citation][nom]stingstang[/nom]You and that other fool yesterday doing the same thing now has me saying in my head< "Nice article!" every time I read one![/citation]
reminds me of spongebob

 

[amk-aka-Phantom]

[citation][nom]iam2thecrowe[/nom]umm....niche stuff is where real work happens. Things that are a lot bigger than consumer rubbish. For example, AMD chips power controllers for high volume, high relieability Oce digital production 320 ppm printers.[/citation]

Yep. But we don't give a crap about that stuff, thus AMD can buzz off.

 

[Guest]

@amk-aka-Phantom

just imagine, your sparkling ivy bridge could one day be made by robots which have an AMD chip in them, not that you care, but there's a good dose of irony in there somewhere

 

[Deemo13]

The Llano chips are awesome! I have one in my tower, but if I must be honest, they're not that great in high end gaming rigs. My A8 3500M with a dedicated 6750M plays everything I want it to.

 

[upgrade_1977]

Huh?

 

[leorick]

I want to see some real time applications when they are out. I hope Tom's will have a follow up on this soon.

 

[amk-aka-Phantom]

@amk-aka-Phantom

just imagine, your sparkling ivy bridge could one day be made by robots which have an AMD chip in them, not that you care, but there's a good dose of irony in there somewhere

Yeah, that irony doesn't bother me. The point is that all I care about is my [strike]Ivy[/strike] Sandy Bridge - I honestly don't give a damn about what they use on the factories, it's irrelevant for me. If I'd work in this field, THEN maybe I'd care. For now, I care only what goes in the machines I build for our clients...

 

[bit_user]

The main applications for RTOS are things like robotics, avionics, medical, and automotive. Situations where guaranteed response times are critical.

The benefit of APUs in such applications mainly has to do with either graphics or the kind of compute power offered by shaders in the graphics cores.

 

[mkrijt]

Wohoo!!! Now my robot has DirectX 11 support 😀