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images/news/amd.jpgAMD Predicts Death of Netbooks, Rise of Inexpensive Notebooks.
AMD’s Chief Executive: Netbooks Will Be Forgotten in a Year
Advanced Micro Devices is known for its negative attitude towards netbooks, ultra low-cost personal computers in sub-notebook form-factor with low-performance microprocessor. The company’s chief executive officer said in a recent interview that netbook category will be forgotten in a year from now.
“I hate to say netbooks because a year from now people won’t say ‘netbooks’. […] You will see our chips show up in devices down to the $399 price point,” said Dirk Meyer, chief executive officer and president of Advanced Micro Devices, in an interview with Cnet News.com web-site.
The vast majority of netbooks is powered by Intel Atom processor, which is very small and is cheap to manufacture using 45nm process technology. AMD does not have a direct rival to Intel Atom, but the company hopes that its slightly more expensive platforms for mobile computers will enable cost-effective notebooks with higher performance and feature-set compared to netbooks.
AMD’s Yukon platform consists of AMD Athlon Neo or AMD Sempron single-core central processing unit (CPU) with integrated single-channel DDR2 memory controller in ball-grid array (BGA) packaging, AMD M690E chipset with built-in DirectX 9-class ATI Radeon X1250 graphics core and AMD SB600 I/O controller. System designers may also install discrete DirectX 10-supporting ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3410 graphics processing unit to enable higher-performance and higher-quality graphics on inexpensive computers.
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AMD’s Chief Executive: Netbooks Will Be Forgotten in a Year
Advanced Micro Devices is known for its negative attitude towards netbooks, ultra low-cost personal computers in sub-notebook form-factor with low-performance microprocessor. The company’s chief executive officer said in a recent interview that netbook category will be forgotten in a year from now.
“I hate to say netbooks because a year from now people won’t say ‘netbooks’. […] You will see our chips show up in devices down to the $399 price point,” said Dirk Meyer, chief executive officer and president of Advanced Micro Devices, in an interview with Cnet News.com web-site.
The vast majority of netbooks is powered by Intel Atom processor, which is very small and is cheap to manufacture using 45nm process technology. AMD does not have a direct rival to Intel Atom, but the company hopes that its slightly more expensive platforms for mobile computers will enable cost-effective notebooks with higher performance and feature-set compared to netbooks.
AMD’s Yukon platform consists of AMD Athlon Neo or AMD Sempron single-core central processing unit (CPU) with integrated single-channel DDR2 memory controller in ball-grid array (BGA) packaging, AMD M690E chipset with built-in DirectX 9-class ATI Radeon X1250 graphics core and AMD SB600 I/O controller. System designers may also install discrete DirectX 10-supporting ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3410 graphics processing unit to enable higher-performance and higher-quality graphics on inexpensive computers.
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