At this year’s CES, AMD revealed its plans for its new supercomputer that the company believes will revolutionize entertainment. AMD’s plan is for the server to calculate all the relevant data and stream it to online devices, which would result in even the weakest of mobile devices being able to run what would normally be too graphically intensive applications.

Among the companies that expressed their optimism were Electronic Arts, Dell, HP and even Lucas film, as they see some serious potential in such a plan. The presentation even included a demonstration, where Mercenaries 2: World in flames was streamed to a HP Pavilion dv2 notebook.

This supercomputer, named “AMD Fusion Render Cloud”, should run on two AMD Phenom II processors, AMD 790 chipsets and ATI Radeon HD 4870 graphics processors. There was some talk that the system should be ready by 2H of 2009, but it’s not clear whether this relates to needed software or the actual supercomputer.

As much as this might seem impressive, AMD didn’t comment on how the company would solve latency issues, as such a plan would need for a serious interconnection between the server and the actual device. We’d also not count our chickens too early, as such a supercomputer would render all mobile-device graphics quite obsolete and graphics-wise would erase high-end, mid-range and low-end classification of mobile devices, which would probably not be welcomed by mobile-device manufacturers.

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