A contemporary fanatic will scoff on the idea of a Chromebook – restricted efficiency, capabilities, and a simplistic OS for doing a little critical work? The reality is that the Chromebook, and Chrome OS, have been gazumping good parts of the pocket book market share lately, principally all the way down to its stripped down nature but additionally the low pricing. In 2019 AMD relaunched its older A-series APUs for Chromebooks, assembly that market want. However, at CES this yr we noticed the primary indication of premium $700+ Chromebooks from Intel. Now AMD is shifting into a better efficiency house with its Chromebook choices with new optimized Ryzen {hardware} and Vega graphics.
Today AMD is asserting 5 new processors for Chromebooks.
| AMD Chromebook APUs | |||||||
| AnandTech | Cores | Base MHz |
Turbo MHz |
GPU CUs |
GPU MHz |
TDP | Silicon |
| C-Series | Zen+Vega | ||||||
| Ryzen 7 3700C | 4C/8T | 2300 | 4000 | 10 | 1400 | 15 W | Picasso |
| Ryzen 5 3500C | 4C/8T | 2100 | 3700 | 8 | 1200 | 15 W | Picasso |
| Ryzen 3 3250C | 2C/4T | 2600 | 3500 | 3 | 1200 | 15 W | Dali |
| Athlon Gold 3150C | 2C/4T | 2400 | 3300 | 3 | 1100 | 15 W | Dali |
| Athlon Silver 3050C | 2C/4T | 2300 | 3200 | 2 | 1100 | 15 W | Dali |
| A-Series | Excavator + GCN 1.2 | ||||||
| A6-9220C | 2C/2T | 1800 | 2700 | 3 | 720 | 6 W | Stoney |
| A6-9120C | 2C/2T | 1600 | 2400 | 3 | 600 | 6 W | Stoney |
The first two Ryzen processors are primarily based on the quad core 12 nm Picasso processors, with 4 Zen+ cores and as much as 11 Vega compute items. The ultimate three are primarily based on the twin core 14 nm Dali processors, with two Zen cores and as much as 3 Vega compute items. All processors are constructed with a 15 W TDP in thoughts, and the thought is for these to cowl the mid and excessive stage Chromebooks whereas the A-series stays for these entry stage fashions.
AMD claims to have a 21% market share within the Chromebook house, utilizing IDC knowledge, and Chromebooks presently account for 18% of all pocket book gross sales. The market is essentially break up into three classes: schooling, enterprise, and client, with schooling seeing a giant uplift in latest months because of the pandemic. Also due to the pandemic, in addition to the expansion of Chromebooks as a viable device for these markets, use-cases are increasing with new productiveness purposes turning into obtainable in addition to the necessity to drive a number of excessive decision shows.
These are a number of of the the explanation why AMD is constant its march into the Chromebook ecosystem. On a efficiency stage, AMD states that the brand new Ryzen-class Chromebook APUs will supply double or higher internet efficiency than the A-series, and +66-150% efficiency in productiveness and graphics duties.
Two of the primary of the brand new Chromebook gadgets is coming from HP – primarily the identical gadget, besides one is for client and the opposite is constructed for the Enterprise market with additional security measures.
The HP Pro c645 can be provided with the brand new Athlon C-class and Ryzen C-class processors, in addition to a HP Privacy Camera shutter and optionally available fingerprint sensor. Through HP’s administration software program and the onboard Titan C chip, it can be externally managed in a company atmosphere if required. The 14-inch 1080p or 768p show comes with optionally available contact, as much as 16 GB of DDR4, and as much as 128 GB of NVMe storage (the bottom configuration is four GB DDR4 with 32 GB eMMC). At 3.four lbs, the c645 is examined to MIL-STD 810H specs, is quoted as having 10.5 hours battery with optionally available quick charging, twin Type-C at 5 Gbps, twin Type-A at 5 Gbps, and an prolonged 2×2 Wi-Fi 6 design. There can be a microSD slot and a HDMI 1.four port. The HP Pro c645 and c645 Enterprise can be obtainable in December, with pricing to return…
