There are about three billion PCs and 30 million servers that consume more than 2.5% of the total electricity generated. The development of mobile devices, cloud technologies and broadband access to the resources of the global network in the future will significantly increase this figure. In this regard, AMD decided to take the initiative called 25x20, in which the company is going to 25 times to improve the energy efficiency of hybrid processors by 2020.
Over the past six years - from 2008 to 2014 - the energy efficiency of AMD products under typical use has increased more than 10 times. In the following six years, AMD is going to largely surpass this achievement, as announced at the China International Exhibition of software and information services (CISIS), which takes place in the city of Dalian.
First, AMD will develop mechanisms such as auto power management changes the clock frequency of the processor and transfer to states with lower power consumption. Second, the emphasis will be on hybrid architecture (Heterogeneous System Architecture, HSA), which is implemented in the framework of equal access to the system memory heterogeneous cores (CPU and GPU). Third, a role in improving the efficiency of APU must play new production technologies with the design standards of 20 nm and below.