AMD Announces Plans To Increase APU Energy Efficiency – Details The 25 x 20 Plan.

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Advanced Micro Devices – AMD today announced plans to improve the energy efficiency of its APUs. The goal, as stated by the company is to increase APU energy efficiency 25x times by the year 2020. AMD’s chief technology officer, Mark Papermaster highlighted the details of the company’s plans at the China International Software and Service Fair conference being held in Dailan China. When we compare this to the current efficiency of the company’s product, the target set is a high one indeed. From the years 2008-2014 the energy efficiency of the company’s products has increased by 10%. The company is to significantly surpass this achievement in the next six years through various architectural plans, as announced in China.

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“Through APU architectural enhancements and intelligent power efficient techniques, our customers can expect to see us dramatically improve the energy efficiency of our processors during the next several years. Setting a goal to improve the energy efficiency of our processors 25 times by 2020 is a measure of our commitment and confidence in our approach.”

AMD’s hopes of increasing the efficiency of its devices are very optimistic indeed. The company expects to outpace performance gains predicted by Moore’s law by 70% between 2014 and 2020.