14 DAY TRIAL // With the way Intel is doing its best to deliver the Oak Trail as soon as it can, some may be looking at AMD and wondering if it will do anything similar, and it seems that a more or less clear answer has been given.
As end-users keeping track of such things will know, the Mobile World Congress expo has been packed full of tablets and smartphones.
With most, if not all, of them using platforms based on the ARM architecture, however, it seems that Intel and AMD had little to show off in this field.
Of course, Intel does plan on seriously challenging ARM on both the tablet and smartphone fronts, the Oak Trail being its first step in this direction.
Apparently, Advanced Micro Devices has no designs as far as the mobile phone market goes, but it does intend to eventually power tablets, starting in 2012 that is.
PC Magazine reports that AMD interim chief executive officer Thomas Seifert was the one that outlined this attitude on the part of the Sunnyvale, California-based company.
"We have no intention of entering the smartphone space at this point of time," Seifert told the Goldman Sachs Internet and Technology Conference.
"We are not in the process of developing [a] baseband [chip] and this is a clear statement. There are enough players in the is market that have a hard time earning money."
"So we see that there are parts of this form factor that move in our direction," Seifert said, according to the official transcript.
"We are continuing to work hard on reducing our power consumption for our products in the low power segment and the same time being able to deliver and continue to deliver cutting edge graphics capability. So especially with the products--with the second generation APU products that are on the roadmap for next year, we feel confident that we can also address a significant amount of those form factors out in the tablet space."