RSSAMD to Release Centrino Competitor in 2008
By Ed Oswald | Published May 18, 2007, 2:45 PM
AMD is set to start shipping a competitor to Intel's Centrino processor by the end of this year, which it is calling Puma.
The chipset has similar energy efficiency characteristics to Intel's, and will start appearing in notebooks by the middle of next year. AMD has mainly concentrated on desktop systems where it has seen considerable success.
However, to continue its growth, it needs to take on Intel in a market where its rival has maintained supremacy. It will start this process with Puma and continue it with Fusion, a chip that integrates graphics onto the core, by 2009.
The new chipset includes functionality that allows for power conservation and longer battery life. For example, the clock speed slows when applications require less CPU power, and features within the chip allow for unused portions to "sleep" while others are busy.
While the company has "mobile" processors now, technically they are just scaled down versions of the same architecture used in desktop systems, the company says. Puma heralds a completely different architecture altogether.
"With increased performance and power efficiency, Puma represents the company's first explicitly mobile platform," Endpoint analyst Roger Kay said. "It's safe to assume that this offering is just the first of what will be turn out to be a stream of evolving products based on the company's new open-platform mobile technology."
Maybe it is too late.
but AMD need to ad the WIMAX support and better support for previous standard.
without that AMD will failed
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|That's good that Amd can finally come out with some benefit of merging with ATI. This next year should be very interesting. having a complete solution instead of relying on third parties will be good for them. let's just hope Amd is around and doesn't go belly up before that happens.
It took years of Amd spanking intel to get just 20 percent of the market. Intel has a heck of a line up now that is beating Amd. Let's hope this is enough. You have to give Amd props though, considering their R&D budget, cash flow and everything is only 1/10th of Intel's is amazing they can survive at all.
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|" Intel's Centrino processor " Centrino is not a proccessor its a group of intel technology's installed together.
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|Wow!
A current model CPU is not simply a monolithic chip but an assemblage of various chipsets?!?
Who would have guessed...
And all along I was thinking that it was just a very powerful single transistor!
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|hahaha... Nice. =)
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