class=”c3″> 
Advanced Micro Devices
(AMD) has opened the door to take operating system Google , Android , but said it would continue to focus on Windows in its next tablet and laptop chips.
AMD has repeatedly said he had no interest in putting their chips on Android tablets and will focus exclusively on Windows 8. However, a change in attitude could open up a broader market for tablets in the company.
For now, the focus of the company remains in optimizing its chips for use with Windows on laptops, desktops and tablets, said Kevin Lansing, director of notebook product line to the business unit AMD customers.
In an email, however, AMD spokesman said Gary Silcott OS adoption depends on device manufacturers.
“Windows is for now. Nothing in our architecture android prevents operation if AMD or decide to try a third party,” said Silcott.
tablet market is currently dominated by Apple’s iOS system, followed by Android. The adoption of tablets and smartphones Windows 8 has been weak. The Android support could open a potentially larger market for AMD, whose chips are used in only a handful of tablets. So far AMD chips have released two Windows tablets in the last two years, which have failed.
AMDThursday shared more details about its upcoming chips Temash for tablets, and devices will be showing the latest processors at Computex in early next month. AMD competes with ARM, whose processors are used in most tablets, and Intel, which later this year will launch new chips code-named Trail Bay for Android tablets and Intel.
ARM and Intel already support Android 4.2, while independent efforts are underway to bring Android tablets to a handful of AMD. AMD has signed a license from ARM, and is building chips based on the architecture of the servers.
Androidused in most low-cost tablets with small screens, which are gaining preference over larger screen devices. Intel pursues a market for low cost tablets and announced that Android tablets for between 200 and $ 399 with Bay Trail could be available later this year.
However, AMD has shown no interest in tablets low cost, and with 64-bit support, the chip Temash for tablets now optimized for high performance and low-end laptops. It is possible to offer a Windows 8 tablet with a full desktop experience, which is an advantage over the competition chips that are optimized for specific use only specific tablet or PC use. For example, the current portfolio of Clover Trail chips from Intel, designed for tablets, is 32 bits and can not run specific desktop applications are 64-bit.
Lansing AMD said its chips Temash have an advantage in graphics, which are increasingly important in online streaming video and gaming. AMD’s strength is based on the graphs, and their chips have been adopted by Sony for the PlayStation and Microsoft for the next Xbox.
a comparison, AMD said Temash, also supports DirectX 11, Windows 7 and USB 3.0, which does not offer the Intel Clover Trail. However, this is expected to change with the Bay Trail family of chips, which support DirectX 11 and USB 3.0. The Bay Trail chip will be able to provide an experience equally capable both desktop and tablet for Windows 8.
Temash alignment includes two dual-core A4 chip and quad-core A6 chip. Tablets running a quad-core can deliver up to eight hours of battery life for web browsing, and about five hours of battery life when viewing 1080p FullHD video on YouTube.
A4-1200 chip consumes 3.9 watts of power, and A4-1250 consumes 9 watts of power. Both chips run at a speed of 1 GHz and have 1 MB cache. The quad-core A6-1450 runs at a speed of 1.4 GHz, consumes 8 watts of power, and has a graphics processor Radeon HD 8250 with a speed of 400 MHz
AMD has been working with several manufacturers of ARM processors through the Foundation Heterogeneous Systems Architecture (HSA, for its acronym in English) to unify multiple processing resources on servers, PCs and mobile devices. The aim of the organization is to develop a hardware interface specification open for tasks can be downloaded to the appropriate hardware resource, which will bring the portability of applications across architectures and devices.
class=”c5″>-Agam Shah ( @ agamsh ) class=”c4″>
class=”c8″> can also see more photos and videos, following us on our social profiles
No comments:
Post a Comment