AMD will stop developing chipset for tablets

Recently, Kevin Lensing said, now the tablet market is involved into a price war. The chip suppliers has little profit now. So it will not be the market counting first for AMD.

As we know, the demand for tablets is reduced dramatically in past months. More important, iPad, Samsung and other cheap China tablet suppliers have taken the market. Their products can not reflect the advantage of AMD on graphic processing.

Lensing said, AMD will focus one some increasing business, like PC. In 2014, the PC market is recovered a bit. Last week, AMD has already PC processor named Carrizo. Its power consumption is less than 10W.

AMD did not succeeded in tablet business. From 2011 when AMD started to enter tablet market, AMD launched new chipset every year. But all of them are not welcome.

From next year, AMD will not launch new chipset for tablet. But the AMD Mullins will still be available. Though this chipset is adopted by HP, Microstar and other suppliers, but it is regarded a failure.

Though, AMD will not launch new chipset for tablets, but it will not quit this business. If any good chance, it will catch it.

As we know, Intel has invested a lot of money for tablets. Though, it is partially successful, but it lost a of money. Intel adopts the X86 framework for its processor. But most tablets in market adopt the ARM framework. AMD has both frameworks. If it wants, AMD can go back to tablets very quickly.