[Tom's] AMD jumping on Andriod bandwagon.

[Kuzi]

That said, regardless the logistics of the arguments for the case that AMD could or should head into ARM marketspace I just don't see their bottom-line in accounting as being healthy enough to support a further dilution in their already thin R&D budget.

Every dollar that goes to an ARM initiative is a dollar that is not going towards their next-gen x86 CPU development or next-gen GPU development.

Well said IDC.

My thinking is that at 28nm, Zacate/Ontario would be a formidable force in the Netbook/Tablet space. I'm sure AMD are working as fast as possible to release new Bobcat-based APUs on the smaller 28nm process. Hopefully TSMC would do better this time than they did with their 40nm process.

I think even near future (2012) ARM based SOCs would not be able to match the CPU/GPU performance of Zacate, although power efficiency would likely be better. But I believe the gap will be getting smaller since higher clocked ARM based dual-core SOCs are getting released now and quad-cores by the next year or two.

 

[Dark Shroud]

Speak of the devil.

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