AMD No Immediate Plans to Enter Tablet Market

[exfileme]

AMD apparently is taking the wait-and-see approach before jumping on the tablet bandwagon.

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[Marco925]

though their plans carry the least risk, they also provide less returns when other companies already are on the bandwagon.

 

[cmartin011]

i hope at least they focus to beat intel to the punch for next few years in the desktop and HPC and nvidia in GPU business

 

[gekko668]

No pain no gain but in this case I guess AMD doesn't have that much cash laying around to invest into other market

 

[nforce4max]

>:|

Damn I was hoping to see AMD enter this market to bring more competition and they offer great chipsets to the table as well low power graphics.

 

[Guest]

Tom's, any chance you might cover AMD's showing of Zacate/Ontario this week? You guys neglected to do any real reviewing of Danube after it was released, hopefully you won't do the same with Zacate/Ontario. AMD released some rather impressive videos of Zacate vs. an Intel Core i5 laptop, Zacate was the clear winner in that exchange...

 

[Stifle]

As long as they keep beating Nvidia to the table with GPU's, go holiday season win

 

[TeKEffect]

I'm a desktop person myself so I'm happy to see them continuing to push those technologies forward, especially ATI. But it seems every year or 6 months for that matter, mobile devices are becoming the standard. Laptops already out sell desktops. Tablets and cell phones seems to be where all the growth is. Wouldn't u want a piece of that rather than just going after market share in a shrinking market?

 

[falchard]

The tablet market will continue to flounder without AMD in it quite honestly. Nothing coming out has a competitive graphics platform that only AMD and nVidia can offer.

 

[eddieroolz]

I also think it would be better for AMD to concentrate in a few key areas. I applaud their decision.

 

[dEAne]

I know they have something their to compete.

 

[braneman]

yay one of the processor companies that's actually seeing sense. I'd much rather have crazy graphics cards that are good for a large segment of the market rather than tablets which are good for a very small part of the market(once the ifad dies out.)

 

[Guest]

I also think AMD plan enter tablet market is compete in the CPU market. http://www.digital-camera-battery.net/netbook-battery/index.htm

 

[Guest]

I just bought a laptop with AMD chipset, CPU, and graphics card.
No way i'm going to support "the other brand".
If they go into tablet computers, i'll buy them too.

 

[jsc]

Actually, I think AMD made a wise decision. There's going to be a bloodbath. Let the waters settle a little first. And for now, they can concentrate on their core business desktop and mobile CPU's and GPU's.

 

[g00fysmiley]

hmm i was hoping bobcat would make a mobile phone/tablet iteration, guess i was wrong. eventually they'll enter it but probably a good buisness decition to wait and see how the tablet wars go then enter with thier cpu/gpu fusion chips and clean up ... maybe

 

[zogglet]

Yet another example of why I'm an AMD loyalist - their consistent practical approach when it comes to jumping on bandwagons.