Product Roadmap Enhancements Illustrate Plans to Accelerate Growth in Low Power, Emerging Markets and Cloud Computing; First System-on-a-Chip (SoC) Solutions Expected to Arrive in 2013
SUNNYVALE, CA, Feb 02, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) --At its annual Financial Analyst Day, AMD (NYSE: AMD) detailed a new
"ambidextrous" strategy that builds on the company's long history of
x86 and graphics innovation while embracing other technologies and
intellectual property to deliver differentiated products.
AMD is adopting an SoC-centric roadmap designed to speed
time-to-market, drive sustained execution, and enable the development
of more tailored customer solutions. SoC design methodology is
advantageous because it is a modular approach to processor design,
leveraging best practice tools and microprocessor design flows with
the ability to easily re-use IP and design blocks across a range of
products.
"AMD's strategy capitalizes on the convergence of technologies and
devices that will define the next era of the industry," said Rory
Read, president and CEO, AMD. "The trends around consumerization, the
Cloud and convergence will only grow stronger in the coming years.
AMD has a unique opportunity to take advantage of this key industry
inflection point. We remain focused on continuing the work we began
last year to re-position AMD. Our new strategy will help AMD embrace
the shifts occurring in the industry, marrying market needs with
innovative technologies and become a consistent growth engine."
Roadmap Updates Focus on Customer Needs
Additionally, AMD today
announced updates to its product roadmaps for AMD Central Processing
Unit (CPU) and Accelerated Processing Unit (APU) products it plans to
introduce in 2012 and 2013. The roadmap modifications address key
customer priorities across form factors including ultrathin
notebooks, tablets, all-in-ones, desktops and servers with a clear
focus on low power, emerging markets and the Cloud.
AMD's updated product roadmap features second generation mainstream
("Trinity") and low-power ("Brazos 2.0") APUs for notebooks and
desktops; "Hondo," an APU specifically designed for tablets; new CPU
cores in 2012 and 2013 with "Piledriver" and its successor
"Steamroller," as well as "Jaguar," which is the successor to AMD's
popular "Bobcat" core. In 2012, AMD plans to introduce four new AMD
Opteron(TM) processors. For a more in-depth look at AMD's updated
product roadmap, please visit http://blogs.amd.com.
Next-generation Architecture Standardizes and Facilitates Software
Development
AMD also provided further details on its Heterogeneous
System Architecture (HSA), which enables software developers to
easily program APUs by combining scalar processing on the CPU with
parallel processing on the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), all while
providing high bandwidth access to memory at low power. AMD is
proactively working to make HSA an open industry standard for the
developer community. The company plans to hold its 2nd annual AMD
Fusion Developer Summit in June 2012.
New Company Structure Strengthens Execution
In conjunction with
announcing its restructuring plan in November 2011, AMD has
strengthened its leadership team with the additions of Mark
Papermaster as senior vice president and chief technology officer,
Rajan Naik as senior vice president and chief strategy officer, and
Lisa Su as senior vice president and general manager, Global Business
Units. These executives will help ensure that sustainable, dependable
execution becomes a hallmark of AMD.
Supporting Resources
-- Visit the AMD Financial Analyst Day website for webcast replay,
presentations, updated roadmap, and more
-- Visit AMD Blogs for more details on AMD's product roadmap changes
-- Follow AMD on Twitter at @AMD_Unprocessed
-- Like AMD on Facebook
About AMD
AMD (NYSE: AMD) is a semiconductor design innovator leading
the next era of vivid digital experiences with its groundbreaking AMD
Accelerated Processing Units (APUs) that power a wide range of
computing devices. AMD's server computing products are focused on
driving industry-leading cloud computing and virtualization
environments. AMD's superior graphics technologies are found in a
variety of solutions ranging from game consoles, PCs to
supercomputers. For more information, visit http://www.amd.com.
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initiatives and growth opportunities; planned product roadmaps,
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products and technologies in the volumes and mix required by the
market; AMD's third-party wafer foundries will be unable to
manufacture its products on a timely basis with acceptable quality,
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and effective way; AMD will be unable to maintain the level of
investment in research and development that is required to remain
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expected demand in 2012 and beyond; demand for computers and consumer
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market growth and demand for AMD's products and technologies in light
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