AMD's Hondo Chip 'A Windows 8 Product'

dgharmon points out comments from AMD's Steve Belt, who was asked about the company's upcoming Hondo APU. Hondo is their biggest attempt to date to break into the tablet market, and they're doing so with a distinct focus on Windows 8. Belt said, "This is a Windows 8 product, only. We're not doing Android on this platform, at least not now. ... It is a conscious decision not to go after Android. We think the Windows 8 space has a lot of opportunity, there's plenty of TAM [total addressable market] there for us to go at. So we don't need to spread ourselves into other markets, we think Windows 8 is a great place to start. Down the road we may look at Android, right now we're focused on Windows 8." The article adds, "With both AMD and Intel readying Hondo and Clover Trail respectively for Windows 8 and pushing their respective customers to come up with designs at roughly the same time, it will be interesting to see just how many Windows RT tablets will appear at the operating system's launch. However one thing is clear, neither AMD nor Intel will have Android x86 tablets running with their respective next generation ultra low voltage chips." Fortunately, there's nothing stopping users and manufacturers from running other OSes on Hondo.

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Re:Windows 8

[hairyfeet]

Well please keep it up, I know I'd much rather have differing viewpoints instead of mindless groupthink and insults.

As for TFA its total FUD, AMD has already released the specs for Brazos and Hondo is just Brazos 2, they aren't supporting Android because no OEM has asked to use this chip in an Android device so wasting time making drivers that nobody is asking for is just stupid. You'll be able to use any bog standard Linux on this, be it Ubuntu or Debian or whatever, since AMD opened their specs on Brazos ages ago.

Oh and just a little FYI but if anybody wants to use one of those cheap Brazos boards for a killer HTPC? Then you're in luck as OpenELEC has a free Linux build with XBMC already tailored for Brazos Fusion chips. I'm sure it'd run just fine on Hondo as well but with E350s going with really nice HTPC cases for $125 on NewEgg and Amazon I'd stick with it until Hondo has been out awhile. If anyone wants to know how it runs? Not bad actually, nice UI, supports most remotes, sold a couple of them and the customers love the hell out of 'em.