AMD CFO Devinder Kumar said yesterday that the PC business is doing well in corporate sales. Chinese authorities have only recently made some concessions in the rules of operation of Internet cafes, so AMD expects a significant revival in demand for computers to such institutions.
Together with the Foxconn company even showed samples of desktop systems based on eight-processor FX-8300 graphics cards and Radeon R9 270 or Radeon R7 260X, which will fit for a wide range of tasks in an internet cafe. In addition, manufacturers of ready PCs will be offered optimized drivers, including the version with automatic background refresh. The capacity of the local market of Internet cafes reaches 12 million. PC, and every year about one-third of this amount needs to be updated. AMD hopes that with the support of partners will be able to get a loyal audience in China.
In addition, Taiwanese sources for the second time in the last two months have reported that Intel will start mass production of 14-nm processors Cherry Trail in March 2015, and AMD is the second half of 2015 to try its luck with specialized processors for tablets: Nolan series with x86 -compatible architecture and Amur architecture ARM Cortex-A57.