AMD: No Atom-beating Low-Voltage Chip For Netbooks

Bit-tech quotes comments made by AMD’s chief marketing officer Nigel Dessau this week by eWeek, that there are no chances for an Atom-beating low-voltage chip to come from AMD.
According to those sources Nigel Dessau AMD isn’t looking to compete in the low-cost ‘netbook’ market. Furthermore Dessau is quoted by eWeek as saying that the company [...]

Toshiba: Next Generation AMD Platform Available On New Satellite Laptops

Toshiba’s Digital Products Division (DPD), a division of Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc., today announced that select models of its Satellite series are equipped with AMD’s next generation notebook platform.
The Satellite laptop PC series, including the P300D, A300D, M300D, U400D, L300D and L350D, is offered with variations of AMD’s Athlon Dual Core QL, Turion Dual [...]

MSI: Nice AMD ‘Griffin’ Turion X2 Ultra Processor ‘Puma’ Notebooks

AMD formally announced Griffin – Turion X2 Ultra – and since we first heard about Puma, AMD still remains careful about comparing its own CPU against Intel’s Core 2 Duo at this time. Anyway: MSI has the specifications for appealing 15.4″, 16″ and 17″ laptops with the Puma mobile platform online and the specs of [...]

MSI Notebooks: AMD’s Latest PUMA Mobility Platform Rolling

MSI announced an entire new Lineup for notebooks and laptops with AMD’s latest Puma Mobility Platform and the new Turion 64 X2 Ultra processors. These models include the GX630, GT735, PX211,PX210,PR311,EX300, EX630, and others. MSI Notebook will be releasing more models incorporated with Puma mobility platform, because of its abilities in battery span, graphic design, [...]

AMD ‘Puma’ CPUs Overview

Laptoping.com posted a list with AMDs CPUs for AMDs latest notebook platform, codenamed ‘Puma’. Though there are still a lot of new models to com in Q3 and Q4 this year, some types are already ‘listed’:
AMD Turion 64 X2 Ultra (Dual Core)
ZM-80 2.1GHz 1MB 3600MHz
ZM-82 2.2GHz 1MB 3600MHz
ZM-86 2.4GHz 1MB 3600MHz
AMD Turion 64 X2 (Dual [...]

Computex 2008: Toshiba A300 with AMDs Puma and a 15.4″-LCD

The Satellite A305 from Toshiba, which has AMDs newest Puma-Technology inside, has not even left the grounds of Computex. But already the first Early Hands on preview has been posted by Kevin on Notebookreview.com. The Toshiba Satellite A300, A305 integrates a 2.1-GHz-CPU, 2 GB DDR2-RAM, a 320 GB HDD, a Dual-Layer-DVD-Writer, a 1,3-MP-Webcam and Windows [...]

Computex 2008: AMD announces the XGP (eXternal Graphics Platform)

AMD has unveiled XGP (eXternal Graphics Platform) technology which uses the same concept as the XG Station from ASUSTeK, or in other words, an external docking station for graphic cards relayed to the laptop in PCI Express.
There is a difference in size with the solution from the Taiwanese manufacturer. This time there is a PCI-E [...]