It's no secret that despite all restructuring over the last decade or so, AMD's financials are still very poor. TweakTown
heard rumors that AMD is about to enter yet another restructuring period and picked up word that the company has decided to cease efforts to penetrate the low-margin tablet market. AMD will now reportedly increase its attention on low-power CPUs and custom chips.
The beleaguered AMD is changing their focus to the low-wattage CPU space and custom chips for their customers, such as the Microsoft XBOX and the Sony PlayStation 4. These two custom projects are projected to provide AMD with billion in sales alone, and they indicate that other custom projects are in the works. AMD is not releasing a new tablet chip this year, instead staying with their Mullins chip for the entirety of next year. AMD does not provide chip roadmaps more than a year out, so it is hard to determine if they will ever offer a new line of their currently unsuccessful tablet processors. Intel has also recently took a drubbing in the tablet PC market, as outlined during their recent investor conference, and has shifted priorities as they move forward.
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by Thomas De Maesschalck 
AMD, USE YOUR CHIPS AND RELEASE THINGS UNDER YOUR OWN BRAND. That mullins discovrey tablet was awesome, why wait on OEMs that didn't give a fu*ck about you for years and expect them to use your products. The future is that, the manufacturer release their own things. Apple/Samsung/LG You can offer a way better surface pro switching i3-i7 overpriced ULV dual cores to the Mullins APU, Just the $$ saved can be reinvested on a better SSD (more capacity) even do epic things like releasing the 1st x86 laptop/tablet using Samsung AMOLED panels. All with the same or lower price than intel. Ditch OEM's for good (they will disappear in 5-10 years), either use AMD or some fancy name for your laptop/pc/tablet lines.
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