HP releases dual-core Athlon laptop
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Congo to follow
Friday, 5 June 2009, 10:40
HP WILL START shipping AMD's dual-core, low-power Athlon chip technology in a new laptop next week.
According to CNET, HP's updated laptop with the new AMD Athlon inside is the Pavilion dv2. AMD wants the chip to be the king of the ultra-thin laptop market and HP is playing along.
The release is a prelude to that of AMD's Congo platform, which will integrate AMD's HD3200 graphics technology and should hit the shops in the third quarter.
Other vendors will follow with low-power dual-core Congo chips later this year, according to AMD. µ
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why is this news?
i have had my toshiba amd dual core laptop about 4 months and it has a modern zm-80 ultra cpu with HD3650 graphics.
is it an indirect reference to intel being punished for paying people to use their chips?
The article isn't talking about chips available 6 months ago. It is talking about the chips AMD has been prepping for "thin and light" notebooks. In other words, chips with better thermal properties that can be bunged into super thin notebook designs.
These chips are finally starting to trickle out into the market and apparently HP is going to release a machine based on them. It's not terribly exciting news, but news none the less.
The dv2 is not a new machine though, it's already been out for a few months. Only the CPU is new.
The processor is based on brisbane core (stepping G2) single core AMD K8 generation. The chipset is based on old generation Directx 9.0b.