14 DAY TRIAL // Even though it wasn't especially interested in the tablet market, Advanced Micro Devices seems to have revised its position in regards to it, much in the same way as how it believes that there will come a time when adding more cores to a CPU won't be feasible.
Some time ago, AMD did not see the tablet market as any sort of threat to the netbook and notebook segments, but it seems that this opinion has now changed.
Now, the Sunnyvale, California-based company intends to take an active role in this area, since slates will likely rob the laptop market of art of its market share.
Apparently, AMD will wait until the tablet market grows a bit more, enough o justify a Research and Development investment.
At that point, the company will supposedly "show up with a differentiated offering with great graphics and video technology."
One of the main factors behind this shift in marketing outlook may be the $118 million net loss during the third quarter, period in which ti scored revenue of $1.62 billion.
In related news, Advanced micro Devices seems to believe that there will come a time when there will no longer be a competition over whose CPUs have more cores.
"There will come an end to the core-count wars," AMD CTO of servers Donald Newell.
"I won't put an exact date on it, but I don't myself expect to see 128 cores on a full-sized server die by the end of this decade," he added.
The main issue with adding more cores is that there will simply come a time when thermal restrictions will no longer let the trend to continue.
In fact, this would not be too different from how those same thermal limits halted the competition over whose chips had the higher clock speeds.