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    AMD cancels 28nm APUs, start from scratch

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Cloudfire, Nov 23, 2011.

  1. Cloudfire

    Cloudfire (Really odd person)

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    Apparantly AMD is moving from their own factories, Global Foundries, to TSMC. Here is a quote from the article:

    Manufacturing bombshell: AMD cancels 28nm APUs, starts from scratch at TSMC | ExtremeTech

    2 days ago it was also written an article saying that Apple will be ditching AMD GPUs and choosing Nvidia for their next notebooks. Will this result in AMD falling further behind Intel now that Ivy Bridge with 22nm is right around the corner?
     
    Cloudfire, Nov 23, 2011
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  2. DEagleson

    DEagleson Gamer extraordinaire

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    Apple buys whatever is cheaper.
    So if Nvidia can slash its profits to get back in they will do it.

    But if the AMD news is true then i guess we wont see good "performance" APUs and instead get budget priced APUs. D;
     
    DEagleson, Nov 23, 2011
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  3. Deks

    Deks Notebook Prophet

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    AMD managed to seriously fall behind Intel.
    People say that CPU's aren't that relevant in terms of graphic performance, but we've seen evidence where better/powerful CPU's result in higher GPU performance - which can seriously impact APU's in the future.

    Meh... we'll see how things turn out.
     
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