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AMD tries to upstage Intel's show with old news
CHIP DESIGNER AMD is attempting to steal Intel's thunder at its semi-annual developer forum (IDF) next week with some chippery-pokery about its Zacate chip.
As Intel gets ready to show off its latest wares at its Autumn IDF in San Francisco, AMD has announced that it will be showing off Zacate in the city by the bay at the same time. The INQUIRER got an exclusive look at Chimpzilla's Zacate chip last week at IFA, with the company saying that it will be aimed at nettop and low power desktop machines.
Zacate is what the outfit is terming an "Accelerated Processor Unit", or for those who prefer plain English, a CPU with a GPU built in. The 18W Zacate chip is one of three that have been revealed including 'Ontario' and 'Llano', all of which are destined to tip up sometime in 2011. We have also been told that AMD is planning to make a big splash with its Fusion products at the upcoming CES in January.
Wondering whether we were short-changed in Berlin, we have been told by AMD that its Zacate demonstration next week will essentially be the same one given to journalists at IFA last week.
Still, AMD won't be the first company to try to upstage a rival's event, but one would hope that it might actually show off something new rather than rehashing stale news.
Now all that remains is for Intel to tip its hand, with the smart money on Sandy Bridge. The IT industry press expects to get a lot more information on Intel's upcoming 'tock' generation of x86 CPU chips, and it is likely that Chipzilla will finally oblige. µ
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I don't believe they have yet.
Shouldn't you have said;
"AMD is planning to upstage Intel's show..."
My thought is SO WHAT? SOmebody has to keep Intel honest!
Sounds like a personal problem for the story author to me?
Do the AMD marketing boyz not know that Zacate is Spanish for grass and hay?
http://www.merriam-webster.com/spanish/zacate
lmao...
AMD won't be the first company to try to upstage a rival's event,
but one would hope that it might actually show off something new
rather than rehashing stale news.
You and the Inquirer must own stock in INTC Intel. Bashing isn't reporting.