Toshiba launches AMD powered notebooks
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Blog: Toshiba launches a new line of notebooks powered by chips from Advanced Micro Devices, marking the first time in seven years the computer maker has ended its exclusive arrangement with rival chip maker Intel
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Toshiba&#39;s new desktop-replacement multimedia notebooks, introduced on Tuesday, are further evidence that US consumers still have yet to embrace the mobility offered by Intel&#39;s newer mobile processors.
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Processors offer significant power savings, chip maker says.
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IBM, Sony Group and Toshiba today unveiled the advanced microprocessor they are jointly developing for next-generation computing applications and digital consumer electronics devices.
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OCTOBER 19, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - Advanced Micro Devices Inc. today unveiled its most powerful desktop processors to date, a few days after rival Intel Corp.
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Future Opteron processors will have power management technology from AMD&#39;s laptop and desktop systems, the company has announced.
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(InfoWorld) - Toshiba on Thursday revealed a new high-performance chip aimed at multimedia applications such as video processing in consumer devices. The new chip, called SpursEngine, uses cores derived from theÂ Cell microprocessor, which was developed with Sony and IBM. Toshiba plans to show off the capabilities of the new chip in laptop PCs to be unveiled at the CEATEC Japan 2007 technology trade show at Makuhari Messe, which starts Oct. 2. The company will demonstrate the stream processor's capabilities in 3D image processing and manipulation. In rendering changes to an image of a face, the chip can immediately transform hair styles, make-up, and change facial expressions, position and angle in video and render the changes as computer graphics, Toshiba said in a statement. The SpursEngine works alongside a microprocessor to process video streams, recognize and process images, and tackle other multimedia chores. The multicore chip uses Toshiba's own image processing technology. The prototype of the SpursEngine operates at 1.5GHz and consumes 10 to 20 watts of power. It usesÂ Rambus' XDR DRAM memoryÂ due to high data transfer rates required by multimedia applications.The company plans to market SpursEngine after the CEATEC trade show finishes. Toshiba has already started developing products using the processors, and will sell the chips to other companies for use in their products as well. Development of the Cell microprocessor architecture started early this decade to create a new processor with expanded multimedia processing capabilities. Its first major commercial success was inÂ Sony's PlayStation 3Â game console.
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Sunnyvale-based computer chip maker Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., says it&#39;s shipped its first low-power Mobile AMD Athlon 64 processors made with its new 90 nanometer (nm) manufacturing process.
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Intel has 16 new processors to show off in the desert, while AMD plans to trickle out a few details about its upcoming notebook processor technology next week at CES.
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November 15, 2004 - Acer America today has announced its newest notebook in its Ferrari line of notebooks, the Ferrari 3400. Featuring a Mobile AMD Athlon 64 3000+, the notebook combines the market strength of three major brands, Acer, AMD and Ferrari.
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The notebook's first version runs on AMD's 433MHz Geode LX-700, a chip that is slow by the standard of mainstream processors.
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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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'Yokohama' = 'Yamoto' + ATI - Nvidia AMD and ATI are to launch a notebook platform next quarter, it has been claimed. The move appears to build on AMD's past portable-platform development efforts, in particular 'Yamoto', it's attempt to devise a set of specifications based on its CPUs not unlike Intel's Centrino.â¦
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Losing Toshiba as a customer never sat well with Advanced Micro Devices. Japan's Toshiba ditched AMD for Intel as a maker of chips for its laptops in 2001. Since then, AMD has been fighting its way back into Toshiba's lineup in a campaign that has accelerated in recent months.
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A few more details emerge about the three energy-efficient Turion-powered notebooks.
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Advanced Micro Devices Inc.   on Monday launched a line of computer processors that  use less power, saying its adoption of new manufacturing  techniques will help it compete with rival Intel Corp.
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The speedy GeForce Go 6800 mobile graphics chip from NVidia helps power high-end, wide-screen notebooks. Plus: new Microsoft accounting software.