AMD Will Be in 109 New Laptops This Summer
AMD will be in more new laptops this summer than in 2009.
Yahoo News, Reuters and other news outlets said Thursday that AMD's latest power-efficient processors will appear in 109 mainstream laptop models set for launch this summer--just in time for the back-to-school sales season. That's a significant jump compared to last year, with AMD showing up in only 40 laptop models in the same timeframe. It's also a sign that laptop manufacturers are looking for better solutions to reduce overall power consumption on devices.
"This is the first time we've seen this much attention to our notebooks," an unnamed source told Reuters. The insider also said that the company's offerings are growing steadily across the major PC manufacturers, a fact backed by a sudden spike in stock value from $3.22 to $8.27 per share on the New York Stock Exchange at the close of Thursday's session.
Reuters said one source indicated that AMD is receiving positive responses from top PC manufacturers based on AMD's attempts to simplify its numerous hardware options under the new "Vision" brand. They're also hyped up over the promises of improved battery life and better performance "across the line" that the new processors will bring.
Sources also said that AMD will pair the new processors with its own chipsets, bringing in more revenue per laptop than those built with AMD processors and Nvidia chipsets. Laptops offering the new AMD processors are expected to begin a rollout sometime in June, supplied by Acer, Dell, HP, and Lenovo.
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It's good to see AMD fighting back at Intel. Hopefully the hype is real as AMD processors tend to have crappy battery lifespan since they were never efficient in the older models.
I not sure how "spike" is defined but I think you are mistaking AMD's historical stock value. It was the beginning of April, 2009 that is was down around $3.22 per share, not April of 2010. Since November of 2009 it hasn't been below 6.
Good for them. About time AMD start giving Intel pretty good competition in the laptop space.
For low cost lap tops I prefer AMD, better integrated video card, than intel crapy extreme graphics
Maybe now people will start to see how lousy intel graphics are. Their cpu's can't be beat, but I would take an ati gpu any day of the week.
Will have to check these out this fall. Note to all, try to not drop your laptop when it is open or you will be waiting for fall sales like me. Don't get me wrong,it's still portable, but the lcd monitor not so much.
Great, I'll be looking around to see for any decent deals. While I probably won't be getting a new laptop any time soon (Tight budget orz) leads me to sticking with my Hell Latitude E6500 that can't even play a 2D fighting game (Melty Blood Act Cadenza) with winamp in the background (though probably a +5 GB playlist may have something to do with that...) but anyway I hope that laptop manufactures will say "Oh hey people like AMD graphics more? Let's stick with this then!" and thus the world will have a nice smile on it's face as people will manage to get better laptops at lower prices thanks to AMD's extra low prices.
Sorry AMD, I haven't bought an Intel desktop CPU since the Celeron A in 1999 but for laptops I always choose Intel. It's all about battery life and AMD can't compete.
Maybe now people will start to see how lousy intel graphics are. Their cpu's can't be beat, but I would take an ati gpu any day of the week. Will have to check these out this fall. Note to all, try to not drop your laptop when it is open or you will be waiting for fall sales like me. Don't get me wrong,it's still portable, but the lcd monitor not so much.
Anyone who would hold out four or five months for a sale probably doesn't need a laptop as much as most people who need laptops. There are plenty of spectacular deals popping up all the time. You'll probably be paying more the rest of the year by missing out on the phasing out of many, many Core2duo models as i5 and i3's started showing up in their replacements.
AMD was having a bit of a rough time about 2-3 years ago, but I think now they are back in full swing. Four of my friends actually decided to buy/build new PCs this year and they are all AMD systems, ironically. They were all running Intel before that. I think people are identifying the strengths of AMD in price
erformance and forgetting about getting that extra 1% of performance from Intel and paying 50% more for it.
And by the looks of it, AMD is doing even better now. Phenom II X6 is a hit. Radeon is still doing well even with Fermi on the market. FirePro cards are looking really impressive too.
Not sure how long this will hold up, though. Let's hope for the best. I am not a AMD fanboy but I appreciate AMD as a company. Intel is a pretty dirty company at heart. AMD is a little more modest in my opinion.
And we also have the computex where AMD will unveil some details on the HD6000. Good months for AMD.
PII X6 will hit i7's hard. If more people realize that it will be even better.
Sorry AMD, I haven't bought an Intel desktop CPU since the Celeron A in 1999 but for laptops I always choose Intel. It's all about battery life and AMD can't compete.
Really? I couldn't give two craps about battery life. Then again my laptop is a gaming laptop. And trying to run a games on the 9-freaking-cell battery turns it into a glorified UPS. And it's intel/nvidia unlike everything else in the house.
Maybe this has something to do with intel agreeing to stop forcing the use of their chips?
Really? I couldn't give two craps about battery life.
Well kind of the point of laptops is that you can use them on-the-go. Buying a laptop but using it only at home is a waste of money in my opinion and playing games anywhere but at home is... well... let's say I wouldn't.
I am seriously glad AMD is back in the market with more efficient chips but it's funny how people are still complaining about Intel Extreme graphics. The new HD graphics are just as crappy as nVidia and AMD low end now... just sayin'...
It seems that since the new graphic card came out, everything seems going well for AMD.
Happy for AMD
Happier for ATI
HAPPIEST when Apple Hooks up the Mac Books with AMD FUSION... YEAH.. Good CPU/GPU COMBO
Maybe now people will start to see how lousy intel graphics are. Their cpu's can't be beat, but I would take an ati gpu any day of the week. Will have to check these out this fall. Note to all, try to not drop your laptop when it is open or you will be waiting for fall sales like me. Don't get me wrong,it's still portable, but the lcd monitor not so much.
Dude with out a Doubt intergrated intel Graphics SUCK BIG TIME...and Yes I agree they have Flag Ship CPU's
I Perfer ATI Graphics Cards ever since 4800 series
For low cost lap tops I prefer AMD, better integrated video card, than intel crapy extreme graphics
That because AMD uses ATI discrete GPUs, not integrated.
The power usage is more important though since if you want a gaming on a laptop you normally go for discrete.
As for the topic, I am interested to see their power numbers and performance compared to Intels current line. I haven't suggested a AMD laptop for a while due to their lower performance.
I am seriously glad AMD is back in the market with more efficient chips but it's funny how people are still complaining about Intel Extreme graphics. The new HD graphics are just as crappy as nVidia and AMD low end now... just sayin'...
I disagree, there are plenty of articles that compare the integrated video, and ATI's are much more superior than Intel's strongest offering
It even shows on the tom's hardware graphics hierarchy chart.
I think old AMD mobile chipset are bad and unstable, my friend bought one and sold it again to get an intel one. But i think the newer AMD 700 series chipset is very stable and more reliable and may be offering better experience than intel.
Anyone care to do a better job than the article and describe *what* technology is going to be in these laptops? I sure hope they aren't still clinging on to the ye-olde turion 64 x2.
Going to wait for technical reviews and benchmark results.
Waiting how the AMD's llano APU will perform, and Bobcat processor
It is interesting to see how these technologies goes on
109 Laptops.... I never use AMD because the raw power just is not there.... This will be a bad thing unless they step up their game.
Battery life is not a big deal to me because the only portal computer that has ever had enough battery life is my netbook. I want a portable desktop in a real laptop.
Like SAAB, AMD has a very small but very loud user base.
I'll see benchmarks before forming an opinion on this new AMD laptop platform. I am not the AMD fanboy I once was and won't buy it just because it says AMD. (I have bought 6 AMD CPU and 5 ATI cards in the last 10 years)
Intel is shady!....aside from PC manufactures, if Apple is smart they will start building relations with AMD and consider their products to be fitted with both AMD graphic and processing power. this will create enough revenue for AMD to build much much more in their technology department...AMD is the light, and the way!
the problem is people need to be educated that and ATI CPU with Integrated GPU is better than intel a GMA, its faster cheaper and you get better value for money, but most laptop owners dont know this shit, we need to educate people on this
I've been a die hard AMD fan since the days of the Athlon XP when it was first released. I still have one of the first XP1600's to roll off the line as it was purchased direct from AMD Canada when the best on the retail market was the XP1500. Ever since then with a few exceptions (1 desktop and 1 laptop both of which I received in trades for stuff) have been nothing but AMD based usually with ATI graphics. My original XP1600 based desktop had an FX5200 in it that I overclocked. Only reason I didn't pick ATI back then was because I was on a low budget and simply wanted a 128MB card to play UT2004 at decent settings not to mention the Radeon 9200 didn't support DX9.0 in hardware back then. Oh how times have changed. The XP1600 rig that I sunk probably $600-700 into back in high school,granted it played Doom 3 and various other top end games of the time actually pretty well, is now a a relic that I have given new life using FreeNAS and a SATA RAID card. AMD is giving Intel a run for it's money when it comes to the low cost market or just plain people that know about hardware and can see the price/performance that is being offered by an AMD/ATI combo. Still floors me though that my $600 taxes in laptop is easily in terms of sheer processing power about 6x as powerful as that old Athlon system in terms of not only a 600Mhz speed advantage per core x2 but also of course 4GB of newer DDR2 and a heck of a lot better graphics technology. Moore's law never ceases to amaze me
I want a PIIx6 laptop...
They've made 35W x6 server chips, why can't they make a decent mobile chip already?
I'm getting a i7-720QM laptop soon, but I'd love a high end mobile AMD CPU offering to matched with the 5870m it has.
AMD, please don't disappoint. You have a lot of nice desktop offerings, but I feel your mobile segment is severely lacking. For this round, you have won my money for a mobile GPU, but Intel won the money for the CPU.
They've made 35W x6 server chips, why can't they make a decent mobile chip already?
Server is going to out perform your desktop in core, L2/L3 cache and RAM. Same will be true when comparing desktop to laptop systems. The fact that the mobile CPU market is focusing on power consumption over most other factors will severely limit core count. If you really want a 6 core laptop you'll be waiting a very long time.
I'd consider a laptop with an amd cpu and chip-set, but in my experience, amd (ATI) gpu's are terrible (HD 3400 in my HP Elitebook for example). Might as well just use a net-book or smart phone unless you don't need any video performance.
The nvidia gt230m's in my pavilion dv8q's work pretty well. I wouldn't mind seeing something with an amd cpu and this gpu(or similar).