The AMD GX-217GI was a mobile processor with 2 cores, launched in February 2016. It is part of the G-Series lineup, using the Excavator architecture with Socket FP4. GX-217GI has 1 MB of L2 cache and operates at 1700 MHz by default, but can boost up to 2000 MHz, depending on the workload. AMD is making the GX-217GI on a 28 nm production node using 3,100 million transistors. The silicon die of the chip is not fabricated at AMD, but at the foundry of GlobalFoundries. The multiplier is locked on GX-217GI, which limits its overclocking potential.
With a TDP of 15 W, the GX-217GI consumes very little energy. AMD's processor supports DDR3 memory with a dual-channel interface. The highest officially supported memory speed is 2133 MT/s, but with overclocking (and the right memory modules) you can go even higher. For communication with other components in the machine, GX-217GI uses a PCI-Express Gen 3 connection. This processor features the Radeon R6E 4CU integrated graphics solution.
Hardware virtualization is available on the GX-217GI, which greatly improves virtual machine performance. Programs using Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) can run on this processor, boosting performance for calculation-heavy applications. Besides AVX, AMD is including the newer AVX2 standard, too, but not AVX-512.