Not much of interest here for UMPC and MID fans as AMD’s Puma notebook platform is launched. MiniNote devices might be possible with a core removal and down-clocking but don’t expect netbook prices. AMD are clearly not focusing on ultra low power systems yet but are prepared to address a market in 2010. This from ZDNet.
Scott Shutter, notebook division brand manager at AMD, said the chip maker’s goal with its next generation notebook platform is to cover 80 percent of the market. That means AMD is ceding the high-speed niche of the notebook to Intel as well as the UMPC market. Shutter explained that the UMPC market just doesn’t have the demand to warrant AMD’s attention yet.
“Our roadmap has us going there (the UMPC market) in the future–the first half of 2010. We will have products that play into that space when we believe that growth warrants it,” says Shutter.
So it raises the question, why did we see an AMD-based UMPC with the Turion X2 branding on it yesterday? I can only surmise that this is a very early, underclocked prototype until we get some further clarification.
June 4th, 2008 at 9:20 am
The AMD-based UMPC is a Turion TL-56 with clock speed of 900MHz. I saw it on another article.
June 4th, 2008 at 9:48 am
Yup, even though AMD says they aren’t doing UMPC or MID, they are saying that the low power and low cost Turion Ultra has 50% more performance then the Intel Atom and still lower power consumption.
June 4th, 2008 at 9:49 am
No way it does, its a regular A64 X2 with some power enhancements.