AMD Prepping New Processors Eying Windows 8 Tablet Launch in 2012

With the likes of Intel’s and the  ARM processor makers are getting ready for the big launch of Windows 8 tablets with their versions of processors,how can AMD the toughest competitors of Intel in x86 based processors stay behind?

According to the latest reports by VentureBeat,in a recent analysts meeting AMD revealed their plans for the tablet market for this year,stating that they will ship  their  first chips designed to provide the processing and graphics power for tablet computers.

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First Tablet optimized chip slated to be released later this year codenamed Hondo will be a combination of CPU+GPU and will be an energy efficient low power consumption chip keeping in mind the battery life of the Tablets.They also confirmed that we will see AMD processor powered Windows 8 tablets will be released this year.

So while ARM had its pluses in low power consumption and low costs of processors for the tablets,intel and AMD are bringing their own versions of x86 based low power consuming chips.We will be seeing an intense battle not just amongst the PC manufacturers like Samsung,Dell,HP and the others but the Chip makers as well,as Microsoft releases the final version of Windows 8 later this year.

  • Sreekanthbandarla

    Sagar – Any ETA on when Win 8 Tab will be officially released into Market for Public to purchase?

    • Joe Sof Rich

      Not until windows 8 has been released.

      • Mbradley9645

        For the last several releases of a new
        version of Windows, Microsoft (MS) have offered an upgrade discount
        if you purchased (within a certain time frame of the expected next
        release) a computer which is certified to be compatible with the next
        release. Since MS specifically designed Win8 to run on Win7
        compatible hardware, the real question is “when will MS offer an
        upgrade discount if customers purchase a Win8 certified tablet with
        Win7 currently installed”….so you can buy the tablet

        I think last time it was about 6 months
        before the stated release date of the next version. So you should
        try to get a handle on the Win8 release date. Personally, I’d like a
        tablet with USB 3.0 ports, and I’ve been keeping a close eye on
        tablet hardware, and haven’t seen one yet, although some laptops now
        have USB 3.0 ports, so it shouldn’t be long before tablets have USB
        3.0 ports. The thinking behind this would be to connect a SATA hard
        drive with a USB 3.0 port and boot Windows from the hard drive. This
        is called “Windows to Go,” so I could take my Windows with me and
        plug it into either my laptop, my desktop or my tablet, and have the
        same programs installed and so forth.

  • http://www.Technotra.com/ Abhishek Joshi

    Wow..will wait for it…

  • Nadeem Shuja Dar

    Uffffffffffffffff,,,,,how long we have to wait for this Processor???????????????????
    i am a bigggggg fan of AMD Machines…