AMD to move away from CPU-only chips for gaming rigs

January 07, 2014

Advanced Micro Devices is looking to move away from providing CPU-only chips for gaming machines, instead switching over to accelerated processing units (APUs) that integrate CPUs with graphics cores.AMD for many years has sold FX chips, which are the company’s fastest chips and have CPUs but no integrated graphics processors. Those chips have been popular with gamers who overclock chips, use separate graphics cards and build high-end gaming rigs. Such chips are also provided in Intel’s Core Extreme Edition high-end chip lineup.But with higher levels of integration, AMD is now strategically moving over to APU chips to take advantage of the integrated CPUs and graphics cores in a single piece of silicon, said Bernd Lienhard, corporate vice president and general manage of the client business unit at AMD.”It’s not like we’re de-emphasizing the FX line, but we’re moving to the APU world,” Lienhard said. “We’re trying to create a halo ... that can eventually transition to the mobility space.”To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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