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06 Jan 09 AMD to Enter Netbook Business with Athlon Neo Platform

One of the big names still absent from the flourishing netbook business is AMD. The company has decided not to enter this niche yet but it’s definitely reconsidering its options. We’re not going to see AMD in our next netbooks just yet but AMD has decided to release the Athlon Neo platform for ultrathin notebooks.

AMD is thinking about notebooks which have bigger screens than netbooks but are still ultraportable and fairly cheap. AMD will use its new platform for notebooks in the 11 to 13 inches range.

The platform featuring the 1.6GHz Neo is said to handle better multiple applications better than Intel Atoms and it will be bundle with an ATI Radeon graphic card, either the X1250 or the HD3410.

One of the first laptops to use the new platform is a 12-inch Pavilion dv2 from HP which is thin and ultraportable and it will be priced under $1,000. Isn’t AMD a little bit too late to release a new notebook platform?

via cnet

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