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According to AMD road map , this company do not plan in this year to present some special processor, as answer to Atom, but simply AMD will release two inexpensive processors with acceptable energy consumption and decent speed level : dual core Athlon X2 3250e (1.5 GHz, TDP=22 W) and single core Athlon 2650e (1.6 GHz, TDP=15 W). Both processor can be used for creating budget notebooks.
AMD marketing Vice President (Patrick moorhead) expressed his relation to notebooks, which recently collect popularity. In this case we deal with all EEe PC analog
First , AMD representative is dissatisfied with the high price of contemporary notebooks. As all product cost from $299 and above, in reality to purchase notebook in the acceptable configuration for less than $499-599 is almost impossible. For such amount many they prefer to purchase notebook with 15.4 inches screen, dual core processor and 160 Gb hard disk.
As far as AMD plans on the release of notebook platform are concerned, This company prefers to wait , and to look how all this will end. AMD do not intend to waste many resources for creating a specialized processor for this segment . Related Products :
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