To Compete Intel Ivy Bridge, AMD Prepare Trinity

The launch of new processors, Ivy Bridge apparently sparked reaction to Intel rival, AMD (Advanced Micro Devices). AMD reportedly is producing APU (Accelerated Processing Unit) with code name Trinity and is expected to appear on the market in third quarter this year. APU itself is a name that was given by AMD for its products that incorporate with Radeon graphics processors  in  single chip.

As quoted from Fudzilla, the processor will be included in Trinity platform codenamed Virgo and use a new socket, socket FM2.

The fastest processors from AMD Trinity is A10 5800K  quad-core with speed of 3.8 GHz, 4MB cache, 100W TDP and memory support to DDR3 1866 MHz RAM memory.

Qualcomm Prepare S4 Processor To Compete Intel and AMD Quad-core

Microsoft plans to support ARM architecture through its latest operating system, Windows 8, opening the potential for competition between ARM processors such as Qualcomm, Tegra with x86 processors such as AMD and Intel.

IDG reports that Qualcomm is currently developing a quad-core processors S4 SOC (System On Chip) that is intended for thin laptop market.

Qualcomm that famous because of its brand  Snapdragon processor will directly compete with such  thin laptop platform AMD Ultrathin and Intel Ultrabook.

Thin laptop platforms developed by Qualcomm is expected to be thinner than the MacBook Air and Ultrabook Intel with higher resolution screen, longer lasting battery and even 3D graphics support.