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Hondo: AMD's First Tablet Processor Carrying Windows 8
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With Hondo in 2012 and Temash in 2013, AMD is betting big that the tablet market will expand beyond Apple's current market dominance.
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Friday, February 03, 2012:
The consumer electronics manufacturers are not the only ones who are after tablet these days. Updating its product roadmap, AMD, for the first time, has announced its plans for developing ultra-low power (ULP) processors of the tablet market.
To increase its footprint in the growing tablet market, AMD is adding a new part, the 4.5-watt 'Hondo' ULP accelerated processing unit (APU), that being the company's term for its heterogeneous-computing CPU/GPU/whatever mashups.
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'Hondo' will slide in below AMD's 'Brazos' low-power APU and is due out later this year as a 40-nanometre part. “Hondo will be the company's first tablet-based system and tablets with AMD silicon are said to come Windows 8 OS,” Lisa Su, GM--global business units, AMD said.
AMD will refresh its entire lineup in 2013, all in 28-nanometre, joining the Southern Islands process. With Hondo in 2012 and Temash in 2013, AMD is betting big that the tablet market will expand beyond Apple's current market dominance and that Intel won't dominate the Ultrabook market. To move into the ULP market, AMD is targeting x86 support at under two watts.
With fierce rival Intel, AMD is hoping that Microsoft do not shift places with Windows 8. But even if it happens to be the case, Android on AMD is another road that they can take.
Priy Pandit, EFYTIMES News Network
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