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Augmented Reality (AR), spatial computing, and cinematic reality specialist Magic Leap has announced a new partnership with AMD. Magic Leap used Nvidia graphics acceleration technology for its first AR/XR headset but is currently working closely with AMD on a semi-custom SoC .
The particular use case that Magic Leap will be tackling with AMD silicon is going to be an enterprise solution. There are big hopes for the partnership and that it will facilitate creation of the most demanding AR experiences while maintaining power efficiency .
AR can be more demanding than plain old VR as it seeks to convincingly blend the real and computer generated worlds. AMD s SoC will be tasked with enabling enterprises to re-imagine and transform how virtual content and information is visualized and merged with real-world environments, said Magic Leap in a press release.
That’s nothing to sneeze at. The Surface Laptop 3 featured the Ryzen 7 3780U and the Ryzen 5 3850U. Both were quad-core parts. The Ryzen 5 4680U and the Ryzen 7 4980U featured in the Surface Laptop 4 are 6- and 8-core Ryzen processors, respectively. Performance will likely increase sharply just from the added core count.
The fact that these are Surface Edition chips is meaningful, too. AMD and Microsoft’s original Surface Edition partnership (the Ryzen 7 3780U and the Ryzen 5 3850U for the Surface Laptop 3) produced semi-custom parts that tweaked the existing Ryzen architecture and added numerous features, from extra compute units and better responsiveness, to an on-die pen controller and more. “When looking for the right processor to power the all new Microsoft Surface Laptop 3, we wanted the best graphics performance in a single processor,” Microsoft distinguished engineer Pavan Davuluri said in a news release at the time.
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Microsoft Will Also Develop Its Own Chips To Reduce Chip Dependence
According to a Bloomberg report, Microsoft is designing its own Arm-based processor chips for its servers and future Surface devices. As the source claims, these server chips will be used in Microsoft Azure cloud services. In addition, Microsoft is also designing ‘another chip’ for some of its Surface devices.
It is not surprising to use Arm-based chips on the PC side, and the brilliant performance of Apple’s M1 has proved the feasibility of the plan. Self-developed server chips used in data centers also indicate that more and more companies are starting to use self-developed chips to get rid of dependence on other chip companies, especially Intel.