AMD "Project Win" Polling thread

[Idontcare]

project win trolling thread?

Honestly I have no idea how you arrived at this conclusion. Are we both reading the same OP?

 

[cbn]

This is in reference to the video in post #8. (ie, Rory Read's idea of "converging Android environment with a Windows environment")

http://www.amd.com/us/press-releases/Pages/amd-bluestacks-android-apps-2011oct20.aspx

AMD and BlueStacks Join Forces to Bring Android Apps to x86-based Tablets and PCs
AMD invests in BlueStacks to enable virtualized Android apps on AMD APU-powered PCs, tablets


SUNNYVALE, Calif. —10/20/2011

AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced an investment in BlueStacks, a venture-backed firm developing innovative software. BlueStacks has introduced a solution to enable Android applications to run fast and full-screen on Windows®-based devices.

AMD and BlueStacks are collaborating to optimize the BlueStacks App Player for Windows software for use with tablet and notebook PCs powered by AMD APUs with AMD VISION technology. With this combination of BlueStacks software and AMD technology, consumers will be able to access their favorite Android apps on virtually any AMD-powered Windows-based device, including more than 200,000 apps currently available in the Android Market.

“Bluestacks is a visionary software company that is, seamlessly, making the emerging Android mobile apps market part of the broader computing ecosystem and enhancing such experiences on our award-winning APU platforms,” said Manju Hegde, corporate vice president, AMD Fusion Experience Program. “AMD is committed to support such game changing innovators through investment and other activity as we work together to usher in new experiences that allow consumers to enjoy the full capabilities of the brilliant graphics and computing performance enabled by AMD.”

“AMD’s investment in BlueStacks will help us to create an environment where your favorite apps can be accessed regardless of platform technology, providing greater entertainment and productivity value,” said Rosen Sharma, president and chief executive officer of BlueStacks. “Working with AMD enables us to do this faster by expanding our network of OEMs and retailers to reach a broad audience of consumers and businesses that want to get more out of Android.”

The AMD Fusion Fund program makes strategic investments in companies that are developing unique, digital consumer and professional experiences that harness the horsepower of AMD Fusion Accelerated Processing Unit (APU) products. AMD Fusion APUs deliver powerful computing capabilities plus discrete-class graphics with dedicated HD video processing on a single chip. AMD Fusion APUs are powered by AMD VISION Engine Software, with regular driver updates designed to improve system performance and stability.

BlueStacks was founded by Rosen Sharma, a successful entrepreneur who has founded several companies that have since been acquired by industry leaders such as Microsoft, Google, Citrix and McAfee. BlueStacks’ software solution was publicly showcased in AMD’s Fusion Zone at the 2011 COMPUTEX Taipei conference.

Being able to run Android apps on Windows x86?

I wonder if Blue Stacks will take AMD one step further and help them transfer x86 over to Android? (I think a cheaper OS would make it easier for the average person to own AMD hardware.)

 

[cbn]

http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20111123PD214.html

HP, Dell, Acer to expand R&D investments

Aaron Lee, Taipei; Joseph Tsai, DIGITIMES [Thursday 24 November 2011]

Seeing that the PC industry is going through a slowdown, PC players Hewlett-Packard (HP), Dell and Ac[er have all expanded their investments in R&D and as the PC industry will enter an atmosphere that is filled with multiple platforms in 2012, each vendor's R&D, branding and marketing abilities will become important drivers to increase their competitiveness in the future, according to sources from PC players.

HP is set to increase its investment in R&D and to strengthen the related resources. The company also changed its policy to have senior vice president of research, and director of HP Labs Prith Banerjee directly report to company CEO Meg Whitman.

Meanwhile, Dell is set to expand its R&D funding to US$1 billion each year, up 51.28% from US$661 million, that was reported a year ago. Dell also noted that the company will continue to acquire companies in the future and will need more funding to integrate the acquired firms.

Furthermore, Acer's first R&D center is also expected to increase its total engineers from 600 in the middle of the year to 1,000 by year-end with executives of brand vendors and ODMs all major targets for headhunting.

An Acer executive also pointed out that the PC industry is experiencing a significant change, transitioning from Wintel system dominated to competition between several different platforms. Therefore, to the ability to develop devices based on Google's Android system or ARM will become important.

 

[soccerballtux]

Honestly I have no idea how you arrived at this conclusion. Are we both reading the same OP?

hm I shouldn't have thrown that out there.

I feel AMD may be trolling us with the project winning thing, like how they trolled us along with  Bulldozer and trolled us when they released AMD Fusion as a marketing sham with no new product (Llano should have been "Fusion"), and trolling rhymes with polling...that's all I really had. I've never seen ComputerBottleneck troll.

 

[Idontcare]

hm I shouldn't have thrown that out there.

I feel AMD may be trolling us with the project winning thing, like how they trolled us along with Bulldozer and trolled us when they released AMD Fusion as a marketing sham with no new product (Llano should have been "Fusion"), and trolling rhymes with polling...that's all I really had. I've never seen ComputerBottleneck troll.

Ah, now I understand where you were going with that.

To be fair to AMD though, project winning as I now understand it is something that is exactly the sort of internal program that is only spoken to externally for the benefit of the shareholders.

It was never intended to be something the consumer was thinking about, so our expectations of what all goes into project win is bound for disappointment.