Hard to say,If sales for Windows 8 are not as expectedSo Microsoft should consider using the Xbox brand to promote its consumer products. Either a new company is established or acquired. In short, Microsoft's advantage is to integrate the existing Xbox and Windows home server cloud services to promote their products.
It is estimated that this year will not happen, and the next year will be suspended, but what about the next year and the next year? Not sure, but probably. Apple chose amd last year and abandoned NVIDIA. Apple is an enterprise that rarely changes hardware suppliers. You know, it was only after one or two years of news that IBM's power CPU was abandoned.
Of course, the video card is not as high as the CPU, but apple is an extraordinary big brand, who will give up easily? NVIDIA won't win apple's favor, but amd won it eventually. What does this mean? In short, it is hard to believe that the current cooperation agreement between the two parties did not mention the future development of APU.
Not long ago, Apple shot Intel's CPU "power consumption is too high" and also accused intel of its lack of graphics technology. As a result, we can see that, apart from Apple's low-end low-energy products using Intel's onboard graphics card, the "high-end" all have to match AMD's 6 series graphics card. Q: If the CPU produced by AMD is basically comparable to Intel's I5 and i7 series (not to mention completely surpassing, at least comparable to no problem), why should Apple reject amd? What's more, the choice of AMD core solves the problem of weak graphics card of low-end products. openeim Apu has proved to be a product far beyond Intel's low-end graphics card platform. In terms of power consumption, amd seems to be an irresistible temptation.