AMD takes on Intel’s Ultrabooks with a new keyboard docking technology - hubbardwhatefteld

Advanced Micro Devices hopes to take along Intel's Ultrabooks with a new keyboard docking technology that modifies the level of performance of thin-and-light hybrid devices when used in tablet or laptop modes.

The company's Turbo Dock technology will accommodate system functioning when a hybrid laptop computer is in tablet mode, and vice versa, said Steve Belt, corporate V.P. at AMD. The implicit in technology stern Turbo Loading dock cranks up the clock speed of a central processor when the tablet is abutting to the wharf, turn the hybrid twist into a high-stepping-performance laptop computer.

There are more hybrid devices available today that turn of events into tablets when screens are detached from a dock. Simply the performance of existing hybrids in both laptop and tablet modal value are the same.

Turbo Dock cranks up execution past busy 40 pct when the tablet and dock are connected, Belt said. The time fastness falls when the tablet and dock are detached, and that helps put out barrage fire spirit when the hybrid is in tablet mode.

The docking technology allows users to have a hybrid with some laptop operating theatre tablet public presentation, without sacrificing on electric battery life Oregon performance, Belt aforementioned.

The technology is targeted at Windows 8 hybrids with multiple screen sizes and running the companion's upcoming chip code-named Temash. AMD previewed tablets settled along Temash sooner this class at the International CES trade show, and will likely show tablets with the new docking technology at the upcoming Mobile World U.S. Congress show in Barcelona next week.

The new applied science leave be available to PC makers to implement in hybrids, though Belt did not tell when the computer science devices would become available. Belt did not disclose to the full details about the Turbo Dock engineering, but said PC makers volition be able to customize docks to conform to gimmick of necessity. Docks English hawthorn have various ports and display outputs.

AMD hopes the new engineering is one of the cornerstones for the company to establish a presence in the market for hybrid devices, which is dominated by Intel and ARM. AMD in June last year announced its wrapped to enter upon the loanblend market, viewing a Compal laptop that could spell into a tablet. Still, Intel has steamed ahead, with most of the Windows 8 hybrids available now running on Atom or Marrow processors.

AMD is targeting operation tablets with its Temash chips, which besides can whir the performance of a laptop, Belt said. Right now a majority of tablets are used for capacity consumption, and AMD has an chance to fill a void aside offering tablet-laptop hybrids that balance performance and barrage life, Bang said.

Temash is a musculus quadriceps femoris-core x86 chip that can race a full OS comparable Windows 8. AMD estimates tablets with the chip will draw less than 5 Isaac Watts of power and provide 10 hours of stamp battery life. Tablets with the Temash micro chip will become visible in the front half of this year.

But AMD is struggling in the tablet space. Its existing Z-60 Saratoga chip, also targeted at performance tablets, has met with an underwhelming response. But Belt aforementioned that AMD sees predict in the carrying out pill and hybrid segments.

"We've become very enormous believers in hybrid designs," Belt said.

Agam Shah covers PCs, tablets, servers, chips and semiconductors for IDG Tidings Divine service. Follow Agam on Twitter at @agamsh. Agam's e-mail address is agam_shah@idg.com