Cool! AMD to introduce 1.2 and 1.3Ghz Mobile Athlon 4's

[ST4RCUTTER]

It looks like AMD is ramping up their mobile Athlon 4 production, and they are scheduled to have 1.2 and 1.3 Ghz parts next quarter. The Thoroughbred is also slated to be available in February of 2002.

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[majewski9]

Can the Tulatin compete? The marketing muscle of Itel will make sure it does. What I don't understand is why manufacturers don't use more AMD processors. I think Athlon4 will gain AMD a major piece of the notebook market however. This will force companies to use Athlon4's.

 

[ToBeMe]

In order for AMD to gain any substancial marketshare in notebooks, they will have to get into Dell! Who's the #1 company when it comes to notebooks??? Dell is and by a large margin. AMD HAS to get Dell to use Athlon 4's or Tualatin & later on PIV will keep a wide margin over AMD.

 

[Adul]

well if everyone sells a AMD based laptop and they do sell very well, dell may have to look at them.

 

[Athlon4all]

This is certainly a interesting situation. I have no doubt that the Athlon 4 with a GF2 Go will rip apart Tualtin in the Desktop Replacement sector, but anything below that AMD is gonna have problems, because the CPU Socket is still a Desktop Socket A, and it is a HUGE Form factor, and that despite the Palomino core, it still is gonna eat more power and put out more heat than the .13micron Tualtin, so it should be interesting. It will be the better CPU, and the best option in the Desktop Replacemnt, but it will be very difficult for it to compete for the time being in the other markets, in my opinion until the move to .13micron SOI.