AMD Turion chases Intel mobiles
p2pnet.net News :- Advanced Micro Devices’ new Turion mobile processors still haven’t been formally released, but notebooks using them were already on display at CeBIT, “including a few with Turion processors not yet announced by AMD,” says PC World.
Acer was displaying two Turion-based notebooks and, “Aspire notebooks feature the ML-40 version of the Turion processor, which runs at 2.2 GHz and features 1MB of Level 2 cache, according to BIOS information displayed during the startup procedure of the notebook.
“The most powerful Turion chip that AMD announced this week was the ML-37. A clock speed or cache amount was not provided for that chip.”
AMD’s Turion family compete head-to-head withIntel’s Pentium M chip and Centrino mobile platform.
In short, it’s, "finally ready to grab a piece of the thin-and-light mobile arena, which the company estimates will be 51% of all notebooks sold by 2007, says PC Magazine, going on:
“AMD already has processors in place for the desktop replacement category – the Mobile Athlon 64, the Athlon 64 for Notebooks, the Mobile Sempron and the Mobile Athlon XP-M. However, the company has been lax in targeting the profitable thin-and-light market, allowing Intel to dominate that space for almost two years.
“AMD hopes to change all this with its positioning of the new Turion 64. The AMD Turion 64 is built on the successful Athlon 64 architecture, incorporating proven power and performance with power savings for better mobility positioning. Models ML-37, ML-34, ML-32, ML-30, MT-34, MT-32, and MT-30 will be available this month, and vendors such as Acer, Asus, Aver-atec, BenQ, Fujitsu Siemens, and Sharp are already on board. (See the diagram above, courtesy of AMD.)”
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