AMD's newest mobile processor delivers exceptional notebook PC performance for business and home consumers.AMD (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, www.amd.com) A major manufacturer of semiconductor devices including x86-compatible CPUs, embedded processors, flash memories, programmable logic devices and networking chips. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :AMD) has introduced the high-performance mobile AMD Athlon XP A family of Pentium-compatible CPU chips from AMD introduced in 2001. Departing from the traditional MHz designation, Athlon XP chips use model numbers that combine clock speed and architectural features into a numerical rating. processor 1800+ with QuantiSpeed architecture. With AMD PowerNow! technology, the newest mobile AMD Athlon XP processor gives business and home consumers a dynamic power management tool for performance on demand and enables a cooler, quieter notebook PC. "Notebook PC enthusiasts trust and depend on AMD to deliver an exceptional computing experience with leading-edge software application performance," said Ed Ellett, vice president of marketing for AMD's Computation Products Group. "AMD is dedicated to excellence and continuously innovates with the customers' needs in mind. The newest addition to the mobile AMD Athlon XP processor family gives business and home consumers greater choices in the notebook PC market with solutions they can rely on for true, high-performance computing High-speed computing, which typically refers to supercomputers used in scientific research. ." Notebook PCs powered by the mobile AMD Athlon XP processor 1800+, based on 0.13 micron technology Micron Technology ("Micron") NYSE: MU is a multinational company based in Boise, Idaho, USA, best known for producing many forms of semiconductor devices. This includes DRAM, SDRAM, flash memory, and CMOS image sensing chips. , are available today from Hewlett-Packard Company and ACER Europe. "AMD mobile processors offer the ultimate price performance and are consistent with HP product offerings that serve our consumer and small office notebook PC users," said Jonathan Kaye, notebook product marketing manager, HP Personal Systems Group. "The introduction of the newest mobile AMD Athlon XP processor will provide customers who rely on HP notebook PCs a broad range of performance and features for their specific computing needs." "The introduction of the new notebook Acer Aspire 1300, featuring the mobile AMD Athlon XP processor 1800+, provides users with a powerful platform designed to deliver exceptional performance for a wide range of applications, from office work to personal entertainment," said Gianfranco Lanci, president ACER EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) Refers to that region of the world. For example, one might see products packaged differently for the UK, EMEA and Asia Pacific markets. . AMD's high-performance mobile processors enable infrastructure partners to jump-start system performance by offering notebook PCs based on the mobile AMD Athlon XP processor and double data rate (DDR (Double Data Rate) Refers to an SDRAM memory chip that increases performance by doubling the effective data rate of the frontside bus. For more details, see SDRAM. DDR - Double Data Rate Random Access Memory ) memory. Systems featuring DDR memory can provide business and home consumers performance gains on memory-intensive applications such as Internet content creation, gaming and office productivity. With QuantiSpeed architecture, the mobile AMD Athlon XP processor 1800+ also enables extreme performance for the Microsoft Windows XP operating system. "The ATI (ATI Technologies Inc., Markham Ontario, http://ati.amd.com) A leading manufacturer of graphics chips and display adapters. Founded in 1985 by K. Y. Ho, Benny Lau and Lee Lau, ATI chips and boards are widely used by OEMs. RADEON IGP (1) (Interior Gateway Protocol) A broad category of routing protocols that support a single, confined geographic area such as a local area network (LAN). Contrast with EGP. See routing protocol. 320M chipset enables exciting new platforms and provides today's mobile customers with feature-rich, high-performance graphics in a power-efficient design," said Rajesh Shakkarwar, director of marketing, Integrated Products, ATI Technologies Inc. "The ATI RADEON IGP320M chipset can enable DDR memory technology on the AMD Athlon mobile platform, further enhancing performance of systems based on the AMD Athlon XP mobile processor." The HP Pavilion ZE1250 notebook PC featuring the mobile AMD Athlon XP processor 1800+ is available today at retail stores in the United States. The Compaq Presario 900 series notebook PCs will also feature the new AMD Athlon XP processor 1800+ and is expected to be available later this month directly through www.hp.com. Notebook PCs based on the mobile AMD Athlon XP processor 1800+ are also available today from ACER Europe in its Acer Aspire 1300 series. The new mobile AMD Athlon XP processor 1800+ is priced at $335, in 1,000-unit quantities. |
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion