AMD is before its biggest and most important mobile processor launch in recent history and by the end of 2010 it is expected to present the mobile Ontario family with energy efficient CPU cores and integrated GPU. At the same time the company sees how notebooks can soon be offering supercomputer-like performance.
It’s AMD VP Dirk Meyer that offers his view in an article in Forbes for the future of notebooks and PC business in general. Meyer says that the performance of our processors is increasing drastically and not the least performance per watt, among others through integration of graphics circuits into the CPU, which in the future means that ultrathin notebooks will become true performance resources.
“It will not be long before APUs allow road warriors to routinely carry ultrathin notebooks with supercomputer power. You don’t have to be a geological engineer to find that desirable. Compared to all but the most high-performing current generation of PCs, even entry-level APU-powered devices will offer immensely more processing power, challenging developers and game designers to unleash even more engaging, entertaining and productive applications controlled via visceral interfaces,” skriver Dirk Mayer i artikeln
The article Meyer has written as a reply to the discussion about the future or doom of the PC he points out that the we in the future will see the future PC market as the start of something bigger, long before the end of an era.
AMD and Dirk Meyer has a wholehearted belief in its APUs where CPU and GPU is built into the same silicon. The competition, Intel, is on the same wavelength with its Sandy Bridge architecture and next year will be an evolution in PCs. If we are to believe Dirk Meyer this is just the start of something bigger.
