Not exact matches
At Nvidia nvda, general manager Jason Paul tells me the
graphics -
chip company has created a new
line of
chips for VR and even recently formed a new division devoted to the cause.
Despite AMD CEO Lisa Su's strategy to abandon older designs and develop all new, groundbreaking
chips with Ryzen for PCs, the Epyc
chip for servers, and the Vega
line for
graphics, the company is still having difficulty catching its much larger peers.
The release comes at a key time for AMD, which released an array of Ryzen
chips over the past year for PCs and laptops, a new server
chip line called Epyc, and a series of
graphics chips dubbed Vega.
They join Freescale's existing
line of i.MX6 processors which range from the 6Solo low power single core
chip to a 1.2 GHz quad - core i.MX 6Quad with four 3D
graphics shaders, 64 - bit memory, and 1 MB of L2 cache.
The
chip giant will instead affix the AMD brand name to its Radeon, FirePro and Eyefinity
graphics product
lines.
Furthermore, NEC also plans help support Dreamcast development by incorporating the same
graphics chip in its own
line of personal computers.
The A10 Fusion
chip within the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus will grant Apple's newest
line of mobile the power they need to bring the mobile gaming experience closer (in both
graphics and performance), to that of console gaming.
Back in November, longtime rivals Intel and AMD shocked the computing world when the two companies announced that they'd be teaming up to create laptop
chips that combined Intel's Core
line of processors with AMD's Radeon
graphics.
The updated
line includes tweaked MacBook Air devices with multi-functional USB - C port technology and iMacs with an option for new
graphics chips from Advanced Micro Devices Inc..
Then there's always the chance that one supply chain issue, or maybe even a chokehold at a foundry (Bitmain uses the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, also used by
graphics cards and computer
chip makers like Nvidia), could cause a blow to the company bottom
line.
The top - of - the -
line Axim X50v includes a 624 MHz processor, 3.7 - inch screen, 64 MB SDRAM, 128 MB flash memory, a
graphics acceleration
chip (which provides enhanced visual quality), and a bundle of games software.