AMD has its eyes on Las Vegas with Polaris GPUs

From InfoWorld: AMD wants its new Polaris GPUs to dazzle gamblers in Las Vegas using electronic devices.

Qualcomm, meanwhile, wants its embedded Snapdragon chips to be installed in robots, drones, and smart devices used in homes and for commercial applications.

For both chipmakers, the internet of things market is becoming too big to ignore. The companies this week announced CPUs and GPUs adapted from PCs and mobile devices for use in IoT devices.

AMD adapted its Polaris GPU architecture, which is used in discrete GPUs and PC chips, for the IoT sector. Qualcomm's new Snapdragon 600E and 410E are compact chips originating from the company's mobile processor designs.

A goal with the new chips is to bring richer multimedia to non-PC devices. Robots and drones need to be able to analyze images to navigate or recognize objects, and GPUs can provide the necessary horsepower. Robots are also being used in factories to identify defective products and to complete other quality-control tasks.

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