By the fourth quarter of this year, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and ATI Technologies will jointly launch a new notebook platform, currently codenamed Yokohama, that utilizes AMD's Turion 64 X2 processors and ATI's future chipsets, which are currently known as the RS690M, RS690DC and RS790M, according to sources at Taiwan-based notebook makers familiar with ATI's latest roadmap.
Targeted to compete with Intel's Napa Refresh platform, the Yokohama platform may also include WLAN chipsets from Broadcom, Atheros Communications or Airgo Networks, the sources added. Using ATI's chipset solutions, AMD will likely build its own Centrino-like platform for high-performance laptops, the sources noted.
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Targeted to compete with Intel's Napa Refresh platform, the Yokohama platform may also include WLAN chipsets from Broadcom, Atheros Communications or Airgo Networks, the sources added. Using ATI's chipset solutions, AMD will likely build its own Centrino-like platform for high-performance laptops, the sources noted.
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ATi been working with Intel on chipsets ... seriously the 975x chip supports crossfire
I wonder if Intel helped ATi there.... and is it all legal ?
But AMD are adding some much needed features, like IOMMU, which should help performance, driver writers and virtualisation in the future.
AMD is moving forward, but without the marketing muscle that Intel has, with that being said, both companies are putting out very competitive products, and us the consumer are benefiting from this fierce rivalry.
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