What happened to them?
Did they just.. give up against Haswell Ultrabooks?
AMD Ultrathins?
cwongtech on 27/11/2013 - 00:03
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The only way AMD is actually making any money on the CPU side of things is by selling their products for extremely low prices, but even then, they are still losing to Intel at most price points - e.g. 8350 vs. 4670K. So this is only really relevant with desktops.
Their architectures are also extremely old with lower IPC than Intel.
They're not doing well in the desktop and notebook space, but they're fairing very well in gaming hardware. Xbox1 and PS4 are based on the 7000 series of Radeon GPU's.
Their mobile division has been sold off to Qualcomm. So it's not likely we'll see any ARM based chips from AMD for smartphones and tablets.
amd reference notebooks havent been all that popular with asus or hp or whoever
if the manufacturers dont like them, you wont see them
as far as i'm concerned amd laptops are dead
their only specialty is fm2 small medium performance desktops and smaller itx type devices
they are fast enough (ie. i3 to i5 speeds) and have great gpus and moderate pricing
am3 is gone so fm2 will be the standard in 2014 for amd
I don't think so, FM2+ is still pretty bad, shocking CPU performance, like worse than Intel Celeron and with Intel quickly speeding up with Intel HD Graphics, AMD's APU is going to be irrelevant pretty quickly.
The Iris (rather than HD) pretty much blows AMD away unless they have something good up their sleeve.
Yeah, but Iris isn't really widely available yet (and not at all on the desktop), which is a shame, but HD 4600 comes surprisingly close to the AMD APUs. I reckon it's at the point where, if you need graphics horsepower, you'll go discrete, for everything else, HD 4600 is way more than enough, so AMD's APU is facing pressure from both sides really.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/7032/amds-richland-vs-intels-h…
Considering how close HD 4600 is to the AMD APUs, I have a feeling that in a few generations time, the APU will be irrelevant.
Considering how close HD 4600 is to the AMD APUs, I have a feeling that in a few generations time, the APU will be irrelevant.
Well really Intel CPUs are all APUs too, they just don't use that name. AMD just aren't keeping up. Intel also shows that you don't need to sacrifice on the CPU side to include a GPU.
Either way the low end discrete GPU market is already gone, and the mid range is not going to last long. NVIDIA are in more trouble than AMD right now.
since fm2+ cpus arent out its just speculation at this point
AMD already has given up. Great GPU's, decent APU's, horrific CPU's with bleh architectures that suck more power. Intel has it locked up, both mobile and desktop. When was the last time you saw an AMD Win 8/8.1 tablet, let alone an Ultrabook?