Intel entered the mobile processor race this year with the announcement
of deals with Lenovo and Motorola to launch smartphones and tablets
based on Intel processors. Its first product, the Lenovo K800 was
displayed at CES this year and it will soon be on sale in China. But
Intel’s closest rival AMD is not one to be left behind. Now they have
also announce their intentions to get in the arena soon enough.
CEO Rory Read revealed AMD’s plans to
make processors for tablets in an analyst meeting and that new
processors codenamed Hondo would be used in Windows 8 tablets being
released later this year. The processors will be made with versions of
one, two and four cores. The chip will have both the microprocessor and
the graphics processor together in a single unit named as
APU(Accelerated Processing Unit).
He also said about the new processors
being developed at AMD that will be released over this and the next
year. Hondo will be followed by Temash which will feature the new Jaguar
processing core. It will be released in 2013. As posted earlier in
reference to the next XBOX, AMD will start shipping the Trinity-based
APUs later this year. But XBOX will not sport the said processors.
