AMD uses CES 2014 to show the capabilities of Mullins, the low-power successor to tablet APU Temash, with concept devices-- the Discovery Project tablet and a pair of mini PC reference designs.
Readers with longer memories should remember Discovery from the first details leaked on November 2013. As seen at CES, the tablet is a slim device designed around expansion via DockPort technology. A productivity dock turns the tablet into a second PC display, while a gaming cradle adds analogue sticks, face buttons and shoulder triggers.
Equally interesting are the two nano-PCs found at the AMD stand-- one the size of a mailing envelope and the other a mite larger than a Galaxy Note 3. Both manage to run Windows 8.1, and pack a 256GB SSD, camera, Bluetooth, wifi and a DockPort connector.
AMD insists the Discovery Project and other concept designs will not go commercial, since it will instead look for OEMs interested in building such machines.
Of course AMD's CES presence is not just about mobile devices and mini-PCs-- the company announces the A10 7850K and 7700K APUs (aka "Kaveri") should start shipping during January 2014 and reveals the first public demo of Mantle, a graphics API promising faster and better-looking PC games.
