Atom's niche rival from AMD
At CES, AMD is announcing the Athlon Neo processor and the Yukon platform, which, according to analysts , may become the main components for creating a new ultra-portable notebook category that will occupy a niche between netbooks and laptops. There is also the firstborn with Neo - Pavilion dv2 from HP.
It's all about the price. Intermediate link new laptops on Yukon can be due to their estimated cost from $ 700 to $ 1,400. It is a bit more expensive than a netbook, but still cheaper than powerful modern laptops for $ 2000 +. However, the basic configuration on the Yukon platform is not at all frail. This is a 1.6 GHz processor and an integrated ATI Radeon X1250 graphics card. And the video can be changed. On the ATI Mobility HD3410.
I wonder if AMD will be able to move Intel, which feels in the notebook market very well. Only one thing is known for certain (even if you don’t listen to pseudo-analysts who invented a “niche” for Yukon) - the competition between AMD and Intel (on processors) and AMD and NVIDIA (on video) will become tougher. Still, Ion, Atom, Yukon, Neo ...
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It's all about the price. Intermediate link new laptops on Yukon can be due to their estimated cost from $ 700 to $ 1,400. It is a bit more expensive than a netbook, but still cheaper than powerful modern laptops for $ 2000 +. However, the basic configuration on the Yukon platform is not at all frail. This is a 1.6 GHz processor and an integrated ATI Radeon X1250 graphics card. And the video can be changed. On the ATI Mobility HD3410.
I wonder if AMD will be able to move Intel, which feels in the notebook market very well. Only one thing is known for certain (even if you don’t listen to pseudo-analysts who invented a “niche” for Yukon) - the competition between AMD and Intel (on processors) and AMD and NVIDIA (on video) will become tougher. Still, Ion, Atom, Yukon, Neo ...
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via gizmodo
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/48466/
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