Hello,
these are my wishes for an APU2 successor from a personal users point of view. I have a small number of devices deployed.
- high Quality 2.5G NICs (could make use of models with 2 to 5 NICs, but 3 suffice most of the time)
- faster CPU with same level of power consumption (to accelerate some networking workloads up to 1G wirespeed or higher)
Nice to have:
- M.2 Slot with four PCIe Lanes for NVMe Storage (instead of mSATA, which became old)
- PCIe Slot for external Hardware
(edit)- IEEE 802.3 PoE (to power the APU itself would be most useful, but the APU powering other devices is also nth)
- integrated programmable Ethernet switch
Features we already have, I dont want to miss and hope they get even better over time:
- Coreboot Firmware
- ECC Memory
- AES Hardware Acceleration
- 4GB RAM (or more)
- low Power usage
- good Stability