Centrino Atom Platform: PC Vendors Pessimistic

Digitimes reports, that although Intel is aggressively pushing Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) and its Centrino Atom platform, PC vendors still feel pessimistic about the market’s future in general. Digitimes calls an increasing demand for 7- to 10-inch netbooks, a declining worldwide economy and Nvidia’s ARM11-based Tegra as negative factors toward MIDs. Intel declined the opportunity [...]

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 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, [...]

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 [...]