For a number of
reasons, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.(NYSE:AMD) and Intel
Corporation(NASDAQ:INTC) are in similar soups. Both are major players when it
comes to desktop chip market, but have a terrible presence on the mobile tablet
market. To rectify the latter, Intel has recently declared its new tablet
processor that is codenamed as Clover Trail. AMD promptly follows this action
by declaring the firm’s Z-60 accelerated processing unit, APU. The two will get
into rivalry again, but for a different market this time, which neither has a
dominating presence not the recognition for.
Similar to Intel’s Atom
Z2 760 system on a chip, AMD owns a recipe that needs tackling of Windows 8 Pro
tablet market rather than feature-stripped Windows RT tablets. The two
companies take the familiar approach once again by using x86 processors to make
a dash on the varied tablet market. The dual-core AMD Z-60 shows off features
like AMD ‘Start Now’ that is designed to deliver fast boot and recommence from
sleep, up to 8 hours of browsing battery life and 6 hours of HD video playback.
AMD Radeon is
responsible for the graphics part, and delivers support for 1080p resolutions,
DirectX11 capability and HDMI Output. It seems only to deliver a corresponding
effort with analogous solutions that are either rumored or already launched.
Two alternatives have
been declared. Both comes with a dual-core 1.0 GHz CPU, a TDP of 5.9 W and 4.5
W respectively, 80 Radeon cores, a GPU clock speed of 276 MHz and 275 MHz
respectively and 1 MB of L2 cache.
Corporate vice
president of Ultra-Low Power Products at AMD, Steve Belt, has said that the
firm sees a large gap between the low-end and high-end competitive offerings
that let AMD to feature in tablet designs. Such designs are likely to please
customer and users in the same way.
A competitive price
will let AMD to makes its place in the tablet market and it will also cause a
few problems for the Windows 8 network.
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