AMD to Investigate Android in a Bid to Push Fusion into Tablets

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices said that when it comes to operating systems for personal computers in tablet form-factor and the company's Fusion-series of highly-integrated processing devices, Microsoft Windows support is a priority operating system for the company. At the same time, AMD will definitely "investigate" Google Android operating system and watch MeeGo closely.

"As we look onto open-standards market, the Android certainly makes a tremendous amount of sense. That is something we will be investigating as we take our Fusion architecture [into new markets] and we are able to create versions of this architecture for lower power environments that would work quite well for, perhaps, a tablet using this operating system," said Neal Robison, senior director of content and application support at AMD, in an interview with X-bit labs due to be published on Friday.

The high-ranking officer of AMD is less positive about MeeGo, which was originally co-developed by Intel Corp. and Nokia Corp. Recently Nokia decided to switch to Windows Phone operating system and no longer has a priority to continue developing MeeGo, which naturally makes the future of the operating system rather uncertain.

"MeeGo is pretty interesting from a Linux perspective, and I think we need to see a little bit more market acceptance. We are going to be driven by folks, who actually make the compute devices, e.g., OEMs and hardware partners. [Once they release devices and show their interest], we are going to prioritize our R&D efforts accordingly," said Mr. Robison.

Later this quarter Acer will launch its 5745G hybrid tablet/netbook with limited edition AMD C-50 (1GHz) dual-core accelerated processing unit with 5W thermal design power (TDP) inside. The chip is a typical Ontario chip with some tweaks, e.g., different operation of input/output functionality, reduced amount of supported memory modules and some other, according to claims made by AMD in an interview earlier this year.

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