Beijing early morning of November 8th, the AMD announced on Monday that it will further committed to energy-saving technology development. AMD new energy-saving commitment is: let notebook computer battery life time than the present life time of growth of 50%, at the same time to let the computer server in the energy-saving condition performance 30%. More importantly, since all of the computer motherboard will be integrated into a 1.6 inch chip.

　　Staff savings will be used for the energy-saving technology development most

　　AMD last week announced layoffs of 10%, about 1100 people. The AMD cuts across all departments, which is expected by the end of 2012 and will save about $128000000 in operating expenses. As layoffs to improve the efficiency of the enterprise, will further in the next year to save $90000000 in operating expenses. In savings," is a large portion of" will be put into low power chips, emerging markets as well as cloud computing supply chain assembly.

　　Because the AMD market share is steadily lost, so that the companies have better troops and simpler administration strategy appears very logical. On the day the cuts, market research agency IDC released several points out, third quarter, Intel accounted for 80.2% of the market share of global X86 chip, the chip is widely used in the PC, notebook computers and computer server. But AMD only occupies a share of 19.7%, compared to the same period last year is 20.6%.

　　However, as a result of energy-saving technology is becoming more and more important, so AMD layoffs and somewhat offensive meaning. In notebook computers and mobile devices, to provide a longer battery life, power saving technology is the key. The cloud based data center, saving energy is very important, because the cloud computing needs tens of thousands of servers, the servers also consumes a lot of energy.

　　A new type of chip will help enhance the computer battery life time

　　AMD technology development group CTO chuck Moore ( Chuck Moore ) points out, the newly developed chip codenamed Bulldozer," it will be efficient use of advanced low energy technology, and make a new design." Each chip has conjoined core -- this will be the main part of chip management, they will share a part of territory and architecture. In the chip can monitor the operation, to judge the operation load is much, whether to need more power, or only a small amount of electric energy supply. Moore said:" this is a brand new field."

　　Bulldozer in a few weeks before the official launch, however the plan than expected a few months later. The Bulldozer also refresh the processor speed, reaching 8.46GHZ. In November 14th, AMD and some heavyweight computer manufacturer together, the processor is implanted into the computer, but refused to reveal the names of molar temporarily.

　　Moore pointed out that the new chip is just beginning. He said:" on the server side, the development of Intel makes our share began to decline, which made us very unhappy, therefore we have to launch a counterattack." He said that in the next 2 years to 3 years, the Bulldozer will allow notebook battery life in heavy work conditions for extended to 12 hours, while the current notebook the longest duration was only 8 hours.

　　In addition to a power-saving function, AMD also plans to its chip integration more new features. The chip will not only contains the central processing unit for computer -- the basic computing functions, will also include by graphics processing unit, video and game -- for enhance the OC function. While Moore said:" we want to be able to put more functions are integrated into one chip."

　　In addition mole also pointed out:" equipped with three-dimensional chip device will be in the next 5 years will appear on a large scale." This kind of chip will have most of the major operational functions, the initial price of around $100, then the price will gradually reduce.