AMD Quarterly Report Discussion Thread

[AtenRa]

And as I'd mentioned in my first post on the subject in this thread (due mostly to your correct point about AMD only being a player in the windows tablet space), according to Intel's Q1 conference call only 10-20% of the 5M Intel tablets during that quarter ran windows, the remainder were all android.

Yea and i still expect the vast majority to continue to be Android even after Microsoft made Windows free for the Sub 9" Tablets in February.

Attempting to twist the fact that Intel's contra revenue which allows OEMs to offer an x86 tablet at a similar price to the ARM Android alternatives into a diabolical Intel once more locking AMD out of a market is simply ludicrous. Without contra revenue it would be the ARM camp that's selling more tablets, not AMD.

Have a look at the link bellow, there are eight 8" Windows Tablets with the cheapest starting at $249 (the one at 229 is out of stock), higher than the vast majority of ARM Android 8" Tablets. All of them are with Intel BayTrail Z3740 and Z3770. You dont need to compete against an ARM android Tablet, Windows Tablets will only compete against cheap Laptops.

http://www.microsoftstore.com/store...8-A32M-Touchscreen-Tablet/productID.289565600

We had $300 Netops with full Windows license 1-2 years ago, with higher BOM that included a keayboard and bigger 11.6" Screens.
NVIDIA Shield Tablet will start at $299, you believe the K1 SoC platform has a lower BOM than AMDs Mullins ??
If Intel will continue their Contra Revenue i believe AMD should start producing its own Tablets much like NV does. Even at higher price they will have at least higher iGPU performance than the competition, that matters for Windows games and some applications that supports OpenCL.

 

[ams23]

Without knowing the power efficiency of Temash and Mullins, it is impossible to say whether or not it would be suitable for thin fanless < 9" tablets. What is the SoC die sizes for Temash and Mullins anyway?

 

[monstercameron]

Without knowing the power efficiency of Temash and Mullins, it is impossible to say whether or not it would be suitable for thin fanless < 9" tablets. What is the SoC die sizes for Temash and Mullins anyway?

temash is about 110mm ^2 (source: http://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-AMD-A6-1450-APU-Temash.92264.0.html ).

As for feasibility in a 9" tablet, it should be. My example is the Samsung series 9 lite, ~13w max load is similar to the iPad 4. (source: http://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Samsung-ATIV-Book-9-Lite-905S3G-K01DE-Subnotebook.106346.0.html & http://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Apple-iPad-4-Tablet.84095.0.html & http://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Apple-iPad-Air-Tablet.105976.0.html)

I am not even mentioning the fact that Microsoft puts ulv core i3, i5 and i7s into surface tablets with 30w+ max draw. (source: http://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Microsoft-Surface-Pro-2-Tablet.105769.0.html )