AMD Announces New Mobile Chip For Notebooks
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Advanced Micro Devices announced its plans for a new lineup of mobile Athlon 64-bit processors intended for thin and light notebooks.
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Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has expanded its increasingly popular mobile line of chips, named Sempron. The new processor has higher performance and integrated EVP anti-virus technology.
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Advanced Micro Devices on Monday provided further details about its&#160;next-generation Puma platform&#160;for notebook PCs, which is designed to maximize battery life while meeting the heavy graphics performance demanded by the Windows Vista OS.The Puma platform will come with processors named Turion Ultra, originally&#160;codenamed Griffin, and include Hybrid Graphics Technology, which boosts the platform&#39;s graphics performance by running both the integrated graphics processor and discrete graphics together.Discrete graphics cards, which are usually plugged into a slot on the motherboard, usually provide more video memory and graphics processing power than integrated graphics processors, which are included on a system&#39;s motherboard.The platform will include the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3400 discrete graphics card, which is specially designed to work with an integrated graphics card to either crunch extreme graphics or to get better system performance-per-watt, said Scott Shutter, mobile division brand manager at AMD.AMD will also launch ATI PowerXpress for the Puma platform, which allows users to switch between integrated and discrete graphics dynamically without rebooting their notebook. This allows the discrete graphics card to be used for graphics intensive applications when under AC power, and the integrated graphics to be used for extended battery life when on the go, said Bahr Mahony, division marketing manager with AMD&#39;s mobile processor group.The platform will fully support DirectX 10.1, Microsoft&#39;s 3D graphics platform.The hybrid graphics capabilities will ship with notebooks based on the Puma platform in the middle of this year, Shutter said. Though intended to be a centerpiece of the Puma platform, the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3400 graphics card is already separately shipping with Asus systems, according to AMD. Pricing information was not available.A future Puma platform capability will include support for ATI Hybrid Graphics Technology with ATI PowerXpress, allowing users to switch between an integrated graphics card and a discrete graphics card based on a system&#39;s multimedia requirement. AMD will launch this technology toward the end of the year.The combination of the CPU and graphics processing unit capabilities in the Puma platform is one more step towards achieving Fusion, a platform that merges a CPU and graphics processing unit on a single piece of silicon, Shutter said. The Fusion platform is aimed for release in 2009. The company last year launched the &#39;Spider&#39; platform, which combines the company&#39;s Phenom quad-core process, graphics cards and chipsets in one package.Notebooks based on the Puma platform will be able to handle high-definition HD DVD and Blu-ray movie playback through its Avivo HD technology, which offloads the processing of high-definition data decoding from the CPU to the graphics processing unit, Shutter said. The low CPU utilization allows a notebook to perform better.The CPU has 2M bytes of on-board cache, an upgrade from earlier Turion Rev G processors, which had 1M byte of cache, Shutter said. The system also throttles down bandwidth between cores based on system usage and performance to increase a notebook&#39;s battery life.Boot times and program launch times in Puma notebooks will improve with on-board flash technology called HyperFlash, Shutter said. The flash technology will store important bits of information needed to boot a system quicker, reducing lag time usually associated with reading data from hard drives. It will be available on the board, or as a separate modules for motherboards.Shutter didn&#39;t reveal further details about Turion Ultra&#39;s initial clock speeds.
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The new Mobile AMD Athlon 64 processor 3000+ for thin and light notebooks enables a powerful 32-bit computing experience today with a seamless transition to 64-bit computing.
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Samsung Electronics will update its mobile processor lineup with a new chip that combines a 667MHz processor core with hardware acceleration for multimedia, including 3D graphics and video, the company said Sunday.The S3C6410 mobile processor is made using a 65-nanometer process and is designed for use in smart phones and navigation devices. To be shown at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week, samples of the new chip will be available to device makers in May with volume shipments planned to begin during the third quarter.The S3C6410 combines a 667MHz Arm processor core with a hardware video accelerator that supports multiple video formats, including MPEG4 and H.264. The chip, which supports a variety of smart phone operating systems, including Symbian, Windows Mobile and Linux, can capture and replay video using less power than would otherwise be possible, thereby extending battery life, Samsung said.The chip has also been designed to work with a variety of memory types, including DRAM and flash memory, which should give device makers more flexibility when designing future products, the chip maker said.Pricing for the S3C6410 was not disclosed.
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The new NAND chip design will increase throughput up to 5X
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AMD provides a sneak peek at how its pending quad-core chip will improve performance and save energy.
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As expected, Advanced Micro Devices, on Tuesday officially released its new microprocessors aimed at high-end desktop computers. The new chips set the new records in a variety of industrial benchmarks and
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Advanced Micro Devices Inc.   said on Thursday it will offer a new chip for laptop computers  and said it expects to be able to supply one third of the  market for computer microprocessors by 2008, stepping up its  challenge to rival Intel Corp.&#039;s  dominance.
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Qualcomm has unveiled a new multimode chip and associated software that will enable notebook PC makers to embed advanced wireless capabilities into their next-gen products. Called Gobi, the new offering will enable high-speed data connections to the Internet over both 3G and legacy 2G cellular networks, the company said.
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Acer America Corp. on Monday introduced a notebook based on the 64-bit mobile processor from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. The Ferrari 3400, which runs on the Mobile AMD Athlon 64 for thin and
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Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) is expected to unveil its most powerful desktop processors to date on Tuesday, a few days after rival Intel Corp. disclosed changes to its desktop processor road map.
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M6300 wants to kiss your desktop goodbye Dell is adding more power to its high-end line of mobile workstations with the debut of the Precision M6300, a 17" notebook geared at engineers, developers, video editors and others who need to tote around some serious silicon.â¦
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AMD has expanded its family of low-voltage mobile processors designed to offer high performance, security and mobility for thin and light notebooks.
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(InfoWorld) - Notebook buyers might find it difficult to get excited about a new notebook PC platform. Notebook buyers hear "new" applied to notebook technology all the time, but when they check out the supposedly new, it's not only indistinguishable from what came before it, but every brand in a given price range is indistinguishable from all the other brands. AMD's notebook platform, comprised of the completely-redesigned Griffin CPU and a tightly-linked Puma chipset, attacks the familiar twin objectives of high performance and low power with a refreshing twist: AMD breaks the performance/power efficiency relationship of inverse proportion that plagues all existing notebook platforms. The one-chip Griffin CPU combines a completely redesigned microprocessor with dedicated, expanded Level 2 cache for each core, an incomparably fast HyperTransport 3 I/O bus controller and an on-board, power-scalable DDR2 memory interface. AMD's design is inspired by SoC (system-on-chip) circuitry used in ultra low-power embedded devices. Interestingly, the advantage that Griffin gains from pulling everything into one highly-integrated SoC is independent control over the power used by each system component. Each of Griffin's two cores has a broad range of independent settings for clock speed and voltage level, covering the spectrum from deep sleep to full bore. The memory controller has a separately-controlled power supply as well, and the HyperTransport 3 bus scales from bus widths of 2 to 16 bits with each narrowing of the bus resulting in a proportional reduction in power. Like no x86 architecture before it, AMD's notebook platform's power state changes take place within the span of one clock cycle with no limits on the combinations of component power states or the magnitude of the change. In today's PCs, a power state switch can only be performed within a limited range, and a delay of several CPU clocks is required for the new frequency and voltage to stabilize, during which delay the CPU is completely disabled. AMD's platform can literally swing each core, the memory controller, and the I/O bus, together or independently, from deep sleep to full power and every imaginable state in-between in one clock tick. That's not only unprecedented, it's impossible on any other x86 architecture. The Puma half of AMD's notebook platform is a two-chip solution comprised of the RS780M north bridge and SB700 south bridge. Puma switches power states automatically and in lock-step with the Griffin SoC. Puma's integrated 3-D accelerator is designed by the industry's leading GPU engineers, not CPU designers just getting their feet wet in graphics. Puma delivers the power savings and cost benefits of unified memory access graphics while clearing the high bar set by Microsoft DirectX 10 compliance and Vista Premium certification. If a portable desktop or gaming notebook design calls for a dedicated GPU, Puma has a HyperTransport 3-to-PCI Express 2.0 bridge with 16 full-speed lanes set aside for just that purpose. Puma can switch, seamlessly and automatically, between an integrated display controller and a discrete GPU when the notebook is switched from battery to AC power, respectively. AMD's new notebook platform gives notebook manufacturers practically unlimited freedom to build creative designs that differentiate their models from others. But all notebooks built on AMD's mobile platform will share two key traits: Best in class performance and long battery life. Notebook buyers will soon forget the days when they had to choose one or the other. (The unabridged version of this article can be found in Tom Yager's Ahead of the Curve blog at http://weblog.infoworld.com/yager).
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AMD (Quote, Chart) expanded its portfolio of mobile Athlon chips in its quest to debunk Intel&#39;s Centrino dominance, the company said Monday.
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Company outlines plans for Yonah notebook processor, demonstrates desktop chip.