subject: Dell Is Searching Into Amd's Admixture Processors [print this page] dell is searching into AMD's admixture processors
Dell is searching into Advanced Micro Devices' Admixture processors for use in approaching latitude e6400 battery laptops and desktops as it tries to accomplish PCs abate and added power-efficient, a aggregation controlling said.
The Admixture architectonics combines a axial processing assemblage and cartoon processing assemblage into one section of silicon. The abstraction of carrying a GPU and CPU in one amalgam dent could accompany ability and achievement allowances to laptops and latitude d420 battery desktops, said Lane McCullough, chief artefact artist at Dell.
A amalgam dent accumulation a CPU and GPU is a big footfall advanced in aggregation of apparatus in systems, McCullough said. The Admixture dent could play a role in allowance Allowance compress systems, which could advance to new anatomy factors in laptops and inspiron 1545 battery desktops, he said. It could aswell extend the lifetime of PCs and abate the amount of again alteration components.
AMD acquired able cartoon technology through its ATI accretion in 2006. At the time, AMD said it would amalgamate the CPU andGPU on a individual die, but Intel has jumped advanced by accumulation the cartoon and inspiron 1525 battery CPU in a individual dent amalgamation with its latest Core processors.
AMD in February abundant the Admixture dent code-named Llano for laptops. The quad-core CPU is a adapted adaptation of the Phenom II chip and will run at speeds of up to 3.0GHz. The GPU is accepted to be bigger at processing graphics-intensive applications inspiron e1405 batteryas against to accepted applications. But there are abounding alongside applications like antivirus that could accouter the alongside processing capabilities of GPUs, Sobon said.
AMD is abetment OpenCL as a accepted to address applications that can be accomplished on GPUs, Sobon said. Other companies abetment OpenCL cover Nvidia, Intel and Apple.
