AMD might not be independent anymore.

[desiibond]

It takes atleast 2-3yrs for AMD to deliver a worldclass SoC if they start from scratch now. And 3yrs from now, SoC is where the money is. Think about it. A good tablet costs as much as a midrange laptop while production costs for these are significantly lower and one need not make two dozen models at a given point of time.

 

[vickybat]

for now its better for AMD (& the PC world) that they keep their full focus on PC, graphics. at most they should eye the tablet market. being aggressive is good but with the two dozen ARM vendor & now Intel trying to get involved in the XLP (xtreme low power) chips, AMD may end up wasting its cash at best.

1st should be server market, then desktop (& laptop) & finally tablet (to prepare themselves for mobile wars).

BTW, Nvidia Tegra2 is a mobile SOC but what communication & wireless solution it uses? some native design or relies on others for it? so if AMD wants to enter the mobile market, is it necessary to acquire some company like Broadcom?

Nvidia's upcoming Kal-el is a great mobile SOC. Its Tegra 3 and outperforms a core 2 duo T7200.They are in the right direction imo.

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Looks like you are bumped by the rumor that salesmen have been throwing at n00bs saying that AMD processors heat up blah blah so that they can get more margin selling Intel proccys!

Buddy you are spot on here. Saswat23 is from BBSR and its 20kms from my place i.e cuttack. Here , amd is like "stay away from it" and gets heated up quickly and blah blah stuffs. And our friend sawat23 here is a victim of those salesmen who spread these ridiculous information for their own benefit and dealers rarely deal amd here. Thats why people at my place are more biased towards intel no matter how much explanation i give them.

 

[coderunknown]

yes AMD can do it. but first it should gets its power management right. if done well, we may see AMD SOC powered mobile phones by 2013. but still lot depends on the management. also it'll require a good lot of capital investment.

 

[desiibond]

yes AMD can do it. but first it should gets its power management right. if done well, we may see AMD SOC powered mobile phones by 2013. but still lot depends on the management. also it'll require a good lot of capital investment.

Yes. I think they nailed power management with Brazos and given that on-die GPU, it shouldn't be hard for them to get onboard (for SoC).

 

[bubusam13]

AMD got ATI... now som1 wil get AMD too.. no...