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. Codenamed “Ontario”, this is a chip that has been specifically built for netbooks rather than just being a chip that is adapted for netbooks – a choice made by AMD to built the chip from scratch rather than compromise, indicating that AMD are at last embracing the netbook ‘boom’, even if they don’t instill confidence with their “netbook thing” comment:

“If we’d had a part, we’d have been in this space. We didn’t have a part so we went and worked on a part for the thin and light space. The plan is to come to market next year with a Fusion part that fits in it nicely in a netbook type thing.”  – Nigel Dessau, chief marketing officer for AMD.

Hopefully once 2011 comes along there will still be a strong market for the new AMD processor, as in let’s hope that AMD didn’t leave their ‘netbook type thing’ move too late.

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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 processor. However one main difference is that the newer processor consumes less power keeping the netbook cooler for longer and on for longer with improved battery life. The N450 is also smaller in size, meaning the netbooks taking advantage of the new technology will be thinner than current netbooks.

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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 in a hurry to offer this variant of the Atom in their products. Why? Because it costs more–twice more, to be exact–than the 1.6GHz Intel Atom processor. Yes, it offers a higher CPU clock speed, but at a 100% increase in price, it’s hard to say it will be worth it, especially since netbooks with 1.6GHz Atoms seem to be doing pretty well in the market. Here’s hoping Intel wakes up to reality and lowers their price for these, so we can, you know, experience using it in future netbooks to see if it’s really any better.

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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 expected to try their luck and compete with the Intel Atom processors that dominate the netbook component market currently, with most netbook manufacurers using the Atom CPU.

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