Apple has really been doing well in the tablet market with ARM chips and Microsoft is soon going to have an operating system on the market called Windows 8 that works well with ARM chips. It seems that companies are going away from traditional chip manufacturers like Intel and AMD and instead using manufacturers that used to be only for smartphones like ARM. Intel has plans to keep their place in the changing market but AMD has been kind of quiet. But it looks like their plans have just been leaked.
So AMD has their Fusion chips which are pretty much the equivalent of Intel’s Atom chips at the low end. In 2012 around the same time Intel plans to launch their tablet chips it looks like AMD is going to launch their Hondo Fusion chips which will be designed for Windows 8 and tablets. It will remove a lot of the features that tablets don’t really need like VGA output, PCI Express support, and extra USB ports.
Instead the chip will use around 2 watts and support Active Standby which is a way for the Windows 8 machine to still run but use less power. Think of it as an improved Windows sleep feature. The chip will be a dual core with DX11 graphics and should be showed off in December of this year and the production should start during the second quarter of 2012. Then in 2013 there should be Samara which will have next gen graphics and still be designed for tablets.
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