A newly filed patent from AMD regarding Project Quantum has been spotted online. According to Twitter User @_rogame, AMD filed a patent on September 15 of this year to safeguard the design of Project Quantum which was first announced in 2015 by AMD.
Project Quantum was shelved by AMD after a year of the official announcement in 2015 but the recent patent which has surfaced may suggest that AMD may have been working quietly on it. The new patent shows off a brand-new integrated PSU solution for Project Quantum. The patent was first filed in February for approval and was finally approved on September 15th.
Project Quantum was AMD’s version of a configurable small-form-factor gaming PC that would compete with the gaming console’s in size and have much better performance than them. The original prototype measured 9.5 x 9.5 x 6.5 inches. The project quantum featured an integrated liquid cooling system hidden in the top section of the mini-PC. The setup cooled both the processor and graphics and includes a small pump, reservoir, and 180mm radiator.
When Project Quantum was first shelved in 2016, AMD’s Richard Huddy gave the following as the official reason for shelving the project.
The interest we got immediately after E3 was very high, from journalists and consumers and OEM partners, I don’t know whether we have an OEM who is committed to building something like it. We built it as a concept PC, so like concept cars it’s not usually practical to take it straight to market, that wouldn’t make a great deal of sense. But it’s not far from that. I would think that if we have the right kind of conversations with some of these OEMs, then we might well turn it into a real product. In that case, it will probably be a very small number. Maybe only one or at most a handful of PC manufacturers who would bring that to market, potentially. It’s a custom piece, not a high-volume piece, but it is a thing of beauty.
In the Original Project Quantum, AMD was using Intel’s Core i7-4790K processor with a customized ASRock Z97E-ITX/ac mini-ITX motherboard, as AMD didn’t have chips that could rival Intel back then. But now, we will definitely see AMD using their own Zen 2 or Zen 3 chips. We can expect something in the line of AMD’s Radeon Navi or Big Navi graphics cards to be featured in Project Quantum instead of the two Radeon R9 Fury X graphics cards.
We will have to wait and see what AMD is planning with its Project Quantum device.
