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Why AMD’s ultrathin notebooks are doomed to fail
AMD's answer to Intel-based ultrabooks is its ultrathin platform, which are thin-and-light notebooks built around either the chip maker's accelerated processing units. While they have some positive attributes, their future is not looking particularly bright right now.
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Initial Intel Ultrabook shipment volume below 50,000 units, report suggests
Fearing the notebook market will not bounce back during the fourth quarter, Intel’s Ultrabook partners Acer, ASUS, Lenovo and Toshiba will initially ship fewer than 50,000 units of the new thin and light notebooks DigiTimes reported... Read Post
AMD and Intel Won’t Let x86 Die Without a Fight
With its new accelerated processor unit AMD is following its rival Intel down a path to keep x86 chips both powerful and power efficient as computing goes mobile for consumers and requires millions of processor cores running a "clou... Read Post
AMD plans to sell an APU based on modified PlayStation 4 hardware
Chip maker AMD will sell a cut-down version of the custom chip it developed for the upcoming Sony PlayStation 4 gaming console. The accelerated processing unit (APU) from AMD won’t be quite as potent as the one destined for Sony’s c... Read Post