Lenovo COO has become AMD's new CEO

Lenovo's COO has resigned and taken up post as the new CEO at AMD.

Lenovo Newsroom | Statement on Lenovo President and COO Rory Read Becoming CEO of AMD

This probably mean that Lenovo would have more AMD/ATI products in their system line up. Maybe even an AMD powered T series regular laptops. We probably would see more ATI GPU in the Thinkpads in the future, another bonus.

 

T series have never offered AMD x86 CPU's, I doubt that would change with a corporate bigwig going to AMD. However incorporating an least an option for FirePro GPU for their W series would be more likely, as Dell offers the FirePro for their Precision line.

 

There could some sort of T4xxe or T5xxe or just more AMD Edge (not so keen on the last one).

But i think the biggest change will be in the desktop space.

 

lol but if they use amd there would be no more "DO" inside


btw, didnt the edge 14/15 already have amd chips last year?

 

AMD's top end processors easily get surpassed by last generation Arrandale/Clarksfield chips, not to even take about how much Intel re-engineered Turbo Boost this generation and the more potent clock speeds offered by Sandy Bridge.

Graphics-wise, Fusion APU crush whatever Intel offers, but most users are fine with integrated graphics, and if needed, would buy professional level cards (FirePro/Quadro) anyway.

Yes Edge offered AMD, and likely to be the trend.

 

Or you could look at it the other way. The usefulness/effectiveness of a good CPU is starting to plateau whilst GPU acceleration/compute is just starting to take hold.
The GPU half of the APU will probably end up far more important in the next few years than the CPU witch should put them both on even ground advantage wise.