Monday, May 21, 2007
Advanced Micro Devices announced its Griffin CPU, the first processor it has designed from the ground up for notebooks. AMD is pairing its new CPU with a chipset set in a Puma platform that aims to take on Intel's Centrino chips for sockets in high-end notebooks.
The Puma combination helps AMD pull even and even get, in some areas, a slight technical edge over Intel. That sets AMD up to compete for the first time with Intel for high-end notebook designs with top tier suppliers, shifting the business dynamics for the two companies in this sector.
AMD's Griffin is roughly on par with Intel's current notebook CPU in power-managed performance. That's thanks in part to a broad range of CPU features including putting its two cores on separate power planes so they can be independently managed.
The Puma chip set is where AMD gets its edge with features it is offering as much as six months before Intel. Puma supports the latest Microsoft DX10 graphics application programming interface, hardware support for H.264 for high definition DVD decode, 5 GHz PCI Express ports and both the HDMI and emerging DisplayPort interfaces.
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