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Date added: 05/12/2011 X-bit labs - AMD May Reconsider Its Opinion About ARM Processors

Advanced Micro Devices does not close the doors to ARM and may reconsider its x86 everywhere strategy if the market requirements change drastically. Even though the company is not working on a deal to license ARM technologies, AMD admits that its vision is generally similar to ARM's when it comes to heterogeneous multi-core computing.

“Clearly there’s common ground between AMD and ARM [in regards to] balanced computing and the GPU as the key platform pushing the [computing] experience forward, but not at the expense of battery life. [...] We are constantly looking at where the market is headed and evaluating what our customer requirements are,” said John Taylor, a spokesman for AMD, in a conversation with eWeek web-site.

Back in April ARM, a leading developer of micro-processing technologies for low-power devices, recently indicated that it would attempt to persuade Advanced Micro Devices to license its architecture for AMD's chips aimed at handsets and tablets. However, back then Mr. Taylor indicated rather clearly that AMD had no interest to license technologies from ARM.

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