Posted on Friday, August 27 2010 @ 14:03 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
AMD's new Bobcat processor is not only for netbooks and other low-power devices,
IT World heard the chip maker also has plans to release a variant of the Bobcat architecture for low-end servers:
Advanced Micro Devices is considering the implementation of its upcoming low-power netbook chips based on the new Bobcat architecture in low-end servers, the company said this week.
"We're definitely in the process of examining this as a design point," said Donald Newell, AMD's new server chief technology officer, in an interview. "It would be foolish not to."
AMD will start shipping its first low-power chips based on the Bobcat architecture for devices like netbooks and ultraportable laptops later this year. The chips, code-named Ontario, combine a central processing unit and graphics processing unit into one piece of silicon.
