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2011 Release for Netbook Chip from AMD

Chip manufacturer AMD are set to finally enter the netbook market and attempt to rival the Atom processor with a new addition to their Fusion range. They might be a little slow off the mark but, AMD have confirmed that they will release a DX11 capable CPU/GPU hybrid chip designed for netbooks sometime in 2011. [...]

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Netbooks with Intel Atom N450 to get September showing

In September, Intel will be holding an event in San Francisco showing off a number on new technologies. One that’ll interest netbook users, is that netbooks will be shown with the N450 CPU. Today’s netbooks with an Intel CPU use either the N270 or N280 which is pretty much just as fast as the upcoming [...]

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1.86GHz Intel Atom processors would be nice, except they’re twice as expensive as 1.6GHz ones

While you may be satisfied with what you’re getting in a 1.6GHz Intel Atom processor-equipped netbook, did you know that you could have had the same netbook with a slightly better processor that’s clocked at 1.86GHz? Yes, a 1.86GHz Intel Atom processor is available in the form of the Intel Atom Z540, but manufacturers aren’t [...]

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Time for AMD to enter netbook market?

AMD will be holding a Financial Analyst Day on Thursday and notebooks.com expect that this will be the time that AMD announce they will be entering the netbook component market, producing processors for them. The flourishing netbook market could be just the place for AMD to boost their flagging sales of late and AMD are [...]

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