AMD has really succeeded with the launch of their Brazos platform. All the engineering effort put into the development of new Bobcat processor microarchitecture has paid back very well. Zacate and Ontario processors based on it managed to disturb Atom’s monopoly in the energy-efficient and compact solutions segment. And broad popularity of Brazos based netbooks and mini-ITX mainboards is excellent proof of that. A Zacate family representative, E-350 processor, is superior to Intel Atom almost in every aspect. It is faster, has a fully-fledged graphics core, is relatively energy-efficient and boasts pretty competitive price. Therefore, many mainboard makers who used to push forward Atom and ION based miniature mainboards, have now switched to AMD E-350. Moreover, even the companies, which haven’t been involved with Atom mainboards before, started offering their Brazos solutions. Today we are going to talk about two unexpected Brazos-products like that from Sapphire. In fact, it isn’t a big surprise that Sapphire joined the makers of AMD based Mini-ITX mainboards. These two companies have has close relationship for a long time. And this is actually why Brazos mainboards from Sapphire pose special interest these days: what if this company managed to take advantage of their privileged position and achieve more with this energy-efficient AMD CPU? Let’s find out!