Also demanding PC games with great graphics will soon run on tablets – at least that is the advantage with AMD wants to score in the market currently dominated by ARM flat computer. As evidence, the company was on the consumer electronics show CES in Las Vegas, one of the Taiwanese contract manufacturer Wistron tablet built on Windows 8(Sanei N10) with the game Dirt Showdown.This title is correct, as well as former Dirt Racing, well optimized on the Radeon GPUs from AMD and was not entirely liquid – yet provides the graphics with HDR effects and particle systems, most tablet games in the shade. Golem.de could even go with a wireless controller a few laps, which made quite fun. On the full HD display at usual viewing distance no individual pixels were to be seen.The idea of ​​having such a tablet that in the case of Wistron device with mechanical keyboard can also set up like a notebook, on a flight to play like on a PC or console is appealing. The only question is whether the battery and also to the way from Germany to Las Vegas goes where plan at least ten hours of flight time are. At run time, AMD was not specified, only that the quad-core SoC will need codenamed Temash under 5 watts, said AMD’s product manager Lisa Su.If one of Intel’s dual-core Atom Z2760 proceeds, which receives less than 3 (ampe a10)watts of power, and in tablets so far has between six and eight hours, should come Temash a similar configuration of the device at least five hours.

This is also the context in which move other portable consoles with much smaller screens and less added value.With Temash based on the Jaguar architecture, AMD will create a new device category, the “Performance Tablets”. AMD sees a gap between the devices, which are designed mainly for Internet applications and the use of media, and such devices, which can also serve as a full-fledged notebook. Performance Tablets should be lighter than convertible notebooks, still run the x86 version of Windows 8 and almost as long as notebooks endure. If it works, should be seen in the second quarter of 2013, when the first Temash devices come to market.Even before the Asus U38 is expected to one of AMD’s first new Ultrabook (freelander price)equivalent balances here – called Ultra Thin – for the shelter of Intel brand. Then also expect new processors, code-named “Richland”, which build on the Piledriver cores.This is clear from the information provided by Su roadmap containing as already expected except Richland no new major CPUs for desktops and laptops fast. 2013, AMD focused more so on mobile devices – and leaves with the fast Intel CPUs that will renew the company with Haswell, the field without a fight.

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