14 DAY TRIAL // One might think that Advanced Micro Devices would have its hands full with its upcoming Brazos Fusion platform, but reports imply that the outfit is actually already getting ready to start testing the one that will come after it.
As end-users well know by now, or will soon enough, Advanced Micro Devices will soon release its first mobile platform based on the Fusion technology.
Codenamed Brazos, it will be a combination between the Hudson chipset and the Ontario APU (accelerated processing unit).
Already detailed quite extensively, the new chips and chipset will go against Intel's Sandy Bridge processors on the laptop market starting the first quarter of 2011.
After all, both competing companies will officially announce their respective creations at the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show.
Regardless, what Digitimes had to say in its most recent report was not about the Brazos, but of what will come after it.
Apparently, AMD does not intend to lag behind Intel at all now that it has made its push on the mobile market, so it is thinking ahead.
No doubt the orders it received from the likes of Micro-Star International (MSI) and Acer, for netbooks and tablets, respectively, played a part in this eagerness.
Thus, the Sunnyvale, California-based company will actually start working hard on the Deccan platform, the one set to succeed the Brazos.
Deccan will be composed of the Yuba chipset and the Krishna APU and, obviously, will be superior both in terms of processing power and of graphics.
Digitimes says that the outfit is set to start internal tests of the Deccan as early as the first quarter of next year and that samples will be sent to its clients for tests by the end of the second one.
As for actual mass production, it is surmised that Advanced Micro Devices will be ready to take this step even before the year 2011 is over.