The company said the technology will be based on copper wires as fiber optics are too expensive. It would transfer data at bandwidths starting at 10 gigabits per second over distances of up to 100 metres
As expected, tablets are already making news at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show with Lenovo showing off its LePad Tuesday night. The LePad tablet will go on sale first in China, with other products to follow later this year for the US
The company's Fusion chips combine a CPU and graphics processor on a single piece of silicon. AMD first said it would make Fusion chips after it acquired graphics chip maker ATI Technologies in 2006