Microsoft has been using Intel hardware exclusively on its Surface lineup ever since it came out with the first Surface device. The choice was clear - Intel offered much better energy efficiency than anything AMD could offer at the time, besides the strong bond between the two companies. However, it seems that AMD might have done enough with its Ryzen 3000 series to sway big Microsoft into using some of its hardware (Ryzen 3000H or U) on upcoming Surface devices, if reports are to be believed.
Microsoft should be refreshing its Surface Laptop 2 with a 15-inch variant packing AMD hardware. It's uncertain if this will happen, and much less likely to happen for the entirety of Microsoft's Surface product stack (which includes potential refreshes for Surface Pro 6, Surface Book 2, Surface Go or Surface Studio 2). However, that AMD is now being considered alongside Intel in what can be said to be the ultimate Windows experience in Microsoft's usually excellently-designed products is a prestige in and of itself, and means an empowered brand standing for the red camp. Oh and Microsoft might finally be introducing that dual-screen device we've been hearing rumblings about for a while. Project "Centaurus" has already been seeded among Intel insiders, it seems, so it might see the light of day in the upcoming Microsoft Surface event taking place in New York on October 2nd.
Duh, you'd have to be a fool to present a product that contains an Intel chip. Their reputation is in the toilet right now, and selling their garbage is only going to drive people away from computing and straight into the arms of shitty mobile devices.
Isaiah Sullivan
fucking this
Noah Russell
So now that intel is finished who's going to take care of their fabs?
John Lewis
>surface wow it's fucking nothing call me back when AMD gets used in Macs, you know, laptops that people actually buy
Justin Brooks
go shill somewhere else, rabid fanboys.
Justin White
so it will be cheaper?
Lucas Fisher
Microsoft dismissed after they organized a hate campaign against rms
Intel made $16.5b in Q2, above their expectation and they are expecting to hit $69b by end of year. AMD isn't kicking anyone's ass in reality.
Noah Wilson
OY GEVALT!!!
Caleb Sullivan
Congratulations! You just won the Seething Turbokike of the Day Award. Are you guys really this salty about losing the entire x86 segment to a bunch of white male engineers from AMD? If only you had applied more diversity to your hiring practices :(
Jackson Martin
That would be the profit that intel made as a whole. We're talking about CPUs here. Go shill somewhere else.
