AMD, ATI ready to supply Dell's notebooks

ATI'S RS690 CHIPSET is finally entering distribution. So, Dell can expect to sell at least a million AMD-powered notebooks by the end of 2006. The supplier of majority of notebooks will be Quanta.

What makes the Radeon Xpress 1250 chipset so interesting is the fact that the integrated graphics achieves far more impressive performance than Intel's upcoming G965. To add insult to injury, in ATI's presentation there have been several remarks about RS690's graphics subsystem as an ideal companion to Microsoft's Windows Vista.

Anyway, this Yuletide suggests an interesting shopping "experience", with Dell's sales reps and assistants talking about how "superior" AMD processor is to its competition and to remind potential customers that its notebook features Vista-loving graphics and that its competition has a lot of problems in store.

Some of the talk will also come from following slide. µ