Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) seems to have opened its eyes to the wide range of possibilities offered by operating systems other than Windows 8 as it announced that it will be designing chips based on the x86 and ARM architecture to support Android and Chrome on tablets. As per last year AMD had said that it would only be focusing on developing tablet chips that would support Windows 8.
Lisa Su, senior vice president and general manager of global business units at AMD said at the Computex trade show that though the company was very committed to Windows 8 with it being a great OS but the market of Android and Chrome based tablets was also quite lucrative.
Windows 8 has not been that much successful in its tablets operations as of yet and a few Windows based tablet using AMD chips Z-10 and Z-60 did not sale very well.
With Intel also eying the tablets market with its Silvermont based Bay Trail SoC chips, AMD has done well to make its mark in the market.
AMD will be featuring its “Temash” chips A4 and A6 in the latest Windows based tablets in second half of this year. Temash chips consume only 3.9 watts, offer a battery time of up to 8 hours and are expected to rival Intel’s Bay Trail tablet chips.
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