-
AMD to make their low-power chip even less greedy
Posted on January 31st, 2011 3 comments
AMD have announced plans to further increase the battery life of devices powered by their chips by releasing an even lower power processor.AMD’s Fusion initiative has already been lauded for its restraint in the power-guzzling stakes. Now it seems that the 9W Ontario Fusion chip has been streamlined even further by AMD’s engineering teams, who have managed to squeeze the modified chip into a 5W power capacity.
Fusion chips have become well known for being power savers as well as space savers by combining multiple functions in one chip, but AMD are striding into uncharted territory with their latest venture.
Such tweaking has come at the expense of some of the chip’s capabilities, for example the 5W processor will not be able to support higher memory capacities. However, AMD have stated that the new Ontario chip will perform identically to the C-50 APU chips that are beginning to crop up in netbook devices, but at a much lower wattage.
The first device to benefit from the 1GHz dual-core chip and its DirectX 11 graphics-core is rumoured to be Acer’s new tablet device. There have been rumblings for some time that the slate was to be powered by an unnamed Fusion chip.
The projected release date for this device is early February, so we may not have to wait long to test-drive the capabilities of AMD’s latest bit of technical wizardry.
Similar Stories
3 responses to “AMD to make their low-power chip even less greedy”
-
With the coming of numerous monitor sizes, “fluid” web sites are becoming less common. The result is that fluid layouts look “old” because they were typically used more in the early days of the internet.
-
Hi I stumbled upon your website by mistake when i searched Google for this issue, I have to tell you your page is actually useful I also really like the layout, it is beautiful!
-
You undoubtedly ensure it’s appear simple along together with your business presentation however i come across this kind of topic being truly an concern that I believe I might never recognize. It appears also complex and extremely wide personally. I will likely be impatient for your next article, I am going to try to get the hang of it!
Leave a reply
Kendall Marchiori February 1st, 2011 at 12:39