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AMD opens second R&D centre in Hyderabad

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Fusion range processors will be rolled out by 2009-end

Bullish on consumer electronics
To enhance design development capabilities

— PHOTO: P. V. SIVAKUMAR

GOING STRONG: (from left) Dirk Meyer, President and COO, AMD, Dasaradha R. Gude, Vice-President, Hyderabad Centre, Keith Hawkins, Vice-President, Design Engineering, and Dave Kroll, Director, Employees Communications, at the opening of the second research and design facility in Hyderabad on Friday.

HYDERABAD: Dirk Meyer, President and Chief Operating Officer of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), inaugurated the company’s second research and development centre here on Friday.

Addressing a news conference after the inauguration, Mr. Meyer said the company was bullish on consumer electronics, apart from its core areas of expertise — microprocessors and graphics platforms manufacturing.

The new research and development (R&D) centre would have about 200 people, while 250 were already working in the existing one.

The new centre would focus on the creation of intellectual property (IP) in the next generation AMD graphics, computing solutions and consumer electronics.

The company would now have 650 people in research and development activity, including 200 in Bangalore.

The company would enhance its design development capabilities for convergence of personal computers with other mobile devices.

Multimedia products were designed by the Hyderabad centre for consumer electronics companies, which included mobile phones, game consoles, LCD panels and TV tuner cards.

“I don’t think mobile phones are any longer just voice communication devices. They are actually becoming CPU (central processing unit) platforms. AMD wants to create an IP for video and media platforms on mobile phones.

“We now see Internet experience as device-centric,” said Mr. Meyer.

To queries on new processors, he said the ‘Phenom’ range of quad-core processors would become popular in desktops by the end of 2008.

The Fusion range, by integrating the CPU and graphics processing, would be rolled out by 2009-end.

On AMD’s tie-up with semiconductor company, SemIndia, Mr. Meyer said the arrangement would stay and the participation of AMD would depend on the scale of operations of SemIndia.

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