AMD just announced that they FAR exceeded the goals of the 25×20 initiative they set in 2014.
Join us for a quick video overview of the AMD 25×20 Initiative, and how far they exceeded those goals!
AMD 25×20 Initiative : What Is It?
Back in 2014, AMD mobile APUs were widely panned for their poor energy efficiency. That ensured the continued dominance of Intel mobile processors in the laptop market.
So they challenged themselves to dramatically improve the real-world energy efficiency of their mobile processors, setting the moonshot goal of delivering at least 25 times better energy efficiency by the year 2020.
That is essentially the crux of the AMD 25×20 initiative.
AMD 25×20 Initiative : Goals FAR Exceeded!
Six years later, AMD announced that they far exceeded the goals of their 25×20 initiative.
With the introduction of their 3rd Gen AMD Ryzen 4000 series of mobile APUs (codenamed Renoir), they actually delivered 31.7X more energy efficiency!
AMD achieved their 25×20 goals by delivering :
- New CPU and GPU architectures tightly integrated into a common SoC
- New innovations in real-time power management
- Continued evolution of the AMD Infinity Fabric architecture
- Silicon-level power optimizations
- Rapid adoption of the latest process technologies (28nm > 14nm > 12nm > 7nm)
AMD 25×20 Initiative : The Impact
To illustrate the impact of this leap in energy efficiency, AMD shared these calculations.
If an enterprise upgrades 50,000 AMD laptops from 2014 models to 2020 models, it would save approximately 1.4 million kilowatt hours of electricity and 971,000 kg of carbon emissions,
That would be roughly equivalent to growing 16,000 trees for 10 years!
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