AMD's Puma ready to pounce
Give Intel a taste of the cat
AMD claims that more than 100 different laptops will be shipped with its brand-new Puma chipset.
While AMD is supposed to be telling the world plus dog about Puma in a couple of weeks, it seems that John Taylor, of AMD's Graphics division, is so excited he cannot contain himself.
Speaking at a technology update event in Singapore he said that PC makers had been falling over themselves to jack the chip under the bonnet of their latest laptops.
The key selling point is apparently AMD’s “hybrid graphics” which basically lets an integrated GPU does the low-powered 2D and 3D work while a discrete GPU chip does the donkey work.
This means that you will get longer battery life and a reasonable amount of power for gaming.
Taylor was saying how Puma’s were using the AMD Turion X2 Ultramobile processor. This has Hypertransport 3 bus for 2.6GB/s data transfer between CPU and chipset and a power management system that shuts down segments of the chip off for the odd millisecond to save a bit of juice.
This Hypertransport stuff is something that AMD has been giving Intel a good kicking with. It has been around for ages and Chipzilla is only just catching up.
It looks like the first Puma-based notebooks will be seen at Computex in Taiwan in June. µ
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Comments
Hypertransport on a laptop?
Hypertransport on a laptop, or even single-socket desktops and servers is pretty irrelevant.no need to have hypertransport
Well, truth as to be said. Intel doesn't need Hypertransport because it doesn't need it. Intel's cpus has more than enough juice to trounce any offering AMD has. It's a pitty because the market needs competition and if we now have Core2 is just because the pressure AMD put in the past with A64.Now, in the workstation and server arena Hypertransport makes all sense and Intel is playing catch-up. But even here Intel's Xeons has the edge on AMD Opterons without Hypertransport (CSI). Just imagine what will happen in this field when Intel delivers CSI.
Wipe your drool
Before your drop wet your shirt, would you like to tell us about the stuff we really care about? err, something like battery life and power consumption.. Or is that bad news?!Only?!?
One hundred different laptops...dont you mean 100 different types or 100 different models, from a multitude of companies??Shurely shome mishtake.
LOL
"The key selling point is apparently AMD’s “hybrid graphics” which basically lets an integrated GPU does the low-powered 2D and 3D work while a discrete GPU chip does the donkey work."That line is so hilarious I can barely contain my laughter!!
I Love You INQ.!
Sony First
The maker of exploding laptop baterai has been the first company I know for using dual VGA. Intel GMA and lowest end Geforce. And it can switch depending on the system need.wait a minute!
hasn't there been notebooks around for years now that use the intel gmaXXX plus a discrete just like this?I believe sony had a notebook that was marketed like this with an intel graphics chip that did the lowend stuff and a nvidia 8400 for the power precisely to save battery life.
Maybe I'm thinking of something else?
Puma
chromoplastic you must know little about scalability ... because I can hear sysops laughing from here.Lets see how much lower the power is on the little fella.
If it's got Pentium M power and uses less juice people will be interested ... small carbon footprint and a big bite.
Plus from a platform perspective surely AMD can deliver better integration than Intel ... particularly regarding graphics.
Synergy is the real aim in laptops ... no-one has gotten even close so far.
The market is still wide open for improvement.
Pumo supplies the needs
on preformance the Core2duo mobile processors might have a slight advantage in the high-end yes.but the Puma should fil the gap .with the new Puma Turion around along with its intergrated graphics hybrid crossfire and low energy consuming chipsets amd should do great on the mobile market i excpet. it actualy offers both a bit of gaming preformance and still low energy consumption. something intel can learn something from. because an low energy igp with almost zero preformance isn't everything. i expact it will be a quite succesfull product.HT is useful to AMD
HT is more useful to AMD right now because they use it more like Intel uses L2 cache. Intel loads up on L2 cache to increase performance because that cache runs at cpu speed. Well AMD opted for a different cache architecture in which each core has its own cache and they use system RAM for large buffer. SO if the RAM communication is faster it will perform more like Intel's huge cache offerings.Intel's cpu's are not "faster" they are just fed problems to solve in a more efficient manner, and HT is how AMD gets fed the numbers to crunch.