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Toshiba today launched the Satellite A215 notebook computers, its first AMD-powered laptop series since 2000.

Along with AMD’s dual core Turion 64 X2 mobile processors, including the Gold Edition TL64 CPU, Toshiba Satellite A215 incorporates M690V chipset with its integrated ATI Radeon X1200 series graphics, managing notebook’s 15.4″ widescreen display with 1280-by-800 pixels screen resolution. These consumer laptops support up to 4GB of DDR2 system memory and Serial ATA hard disk drives. The first A215 series models feature built-in DVD burner with Labelflash technology for burning labels directly on the media.

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Toshiba Corporation announced today it will put AMD processors in about 20 percent of the notebooks it sells in the United States and Europe. The laptop PC maker plans to use AMD chips in moderate-priced standard models for individual and corporate clients, Reuters reports.

The first AMD-powered notebooks from Toshiba will be released this summer reportedly.

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AMD today announced its new Turion 64 X2 processors, based on 65nm silicon-on-insulator technology. The new dual core 64-bit notebook CPUs, will replace the current 90nm Turions. Although AMD did not provide the details of new chips, the 65nm units should bring better performance and lower power consumption than 90nm processors.

According to earlier reports, the new AMD Turion 64 X2 lineup includes the TL-66 model running at 2.3GHz, which is the fastest Turion processor.

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AMD will introduce this fall Hybrid Graphics technology, a combination of integrated and discrete graphics for notebook computers, AMD’s European technical director for sales and marketing Giuseppe Amato announced this week.

“The basic concept of this technology is the system can run power-saving integrated graphics when using battery power. When the platform is connected to a wall outlet, a discrete graphics card immediately switches on, delivering higher performance. This switching will work without a restart and its behavior should be user-configurable – at least to some degree,” DailyTech reports.

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Advanced Micro Devices plans to release next month AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-66, the company’s fastest laptop processor. At the same time, the company will also slash its prices in order to compete with Intel which will release in May its new Centrino platform code-named Santa Rosa, HKEPC reports adding that TL-66 and other forthcoming dual-core Turion CPUs will be 65nm parts.

AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-66 has two processing cores with 2.3GHz clock speed and with 512KB of L2 cache per core. The new 64-bit notebook CPU supports DDR2-800 dual channel memory, while its thermal design power (TDP) remains at 35W.

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Advanced Micro Devices has announced the availability of the AMD M690 chipset, designed for use in notebook computers. Along with AMD Turion 64 X2 dual-core mobile technology and an integrated ATI Radeon X1200 series graphics processor, AMD M690 chipset incorporate a new power saving technology called Display Cache.

“To ensure longer battery life, the AMD M690 incorporates innovative memory technology known as Display Cache, designed to allow the CPU to operate in low-power mode without accessing system memory. This platform-level innovation coupled with the energy efficient processor design of AMD Turion 64 X2 dual-core mobile technology extends battery life by up to 30 minutes over previous AMD mobile technologies.

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AMD’s current laptop PC platform codenamed ‘Kite’, featuring Turion and Mobile Sempron processors, is to be refreshed starting next year. The refresh will include notebook processors update, as same as use of hybrid graphics and forthcoming wireless 802.11n standard, according to the unveiled company’s public roadmap.

The ‘Hawk’ processors will debut in Q3 next year with an 800MHz DDR2 memory support. The Hawk will be a 65nm CPU, according to the reports. Additionally, in 2008, Griffin processors and ‘Puma’ notebook platform will bring low-voltage computing.

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SiS today announced SiSM771, the Windows Vista ready laptop-use chipset for AMD-powered notebooks. SiSM771, the company’s first chipset embedded with Mirage 3 graphics core supports DirectX9.0 and it’s especially designed for AMD Turion 64 X2, Turion 64, Mobile Athlon 64, and Mobile Sempron platforms, the company says.

With HyperTransport technology, AMD platform which is combined with SiSM771 provides 8/16 bits data and 6.4GB/s bandwidth to connect chipset itself to AMD Turion 64 Series CPU. SiSM771 also supports the latest PCI Express x 16 configuration to provide up to 4GB/s single transmission bandwidth.

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Apple is to offer AMD-powered laptop computer, according to a report by DigiTimes. It is reported that “Taiwan passive component makers are witnessing an aggressive increase in orders for high-capacitance multi-layer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs), with most of the MLCCs having a capacitance of 22μF, and being for use in an AMD-based Apple notebook.”

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Laptops got only a small performance boost and battery life improvement from the use of the new Intel Core 2 Duo Mobile (code-named Merom) processors, the PCWorld.ca reports.

The magazine tested three Core 2 Duo based notebooks: a Dell XPS M1210, a Gateway M685-E and HP Pavilion dv6000t.

“The biggest performance increase over laptops with same-speed Core Duo CPUs was 7 percent. Enough to shave a few seconds off day-to-day business operations, but nothing more”, the report says.

Also, Mac World earlier reported 10 percent improvement when comparing MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo to its comparable Core Duo counterpart.

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Dell Inspiron E1501, the company’s first laptop featuring AMD processor, is now available for purchase through Dell’s online store. The 15.4-inch widescreen 1501 comes with AMD’s Turion 64, Turion 64 X2 (dual core) or Sempron CPU.

The new AMD-powered budget Inspirons incorporate ATI RADEON Xpress 1150 integrated graphics with up to 256MB of shared memory and Dell’s Wireless 1390 802.11g Mini Card.

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AMD has cut the prices of its laptop-use Turion 64 X2 and Mobile Sempron processors. AMD also added 3600+ processor at 2.0GHz with 256MB L2 cache to its Mobile Sempron CPU line.

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Averatec today announced its new 12-inch widescreen 2300 laptop computers, the company’s first line of ultraportable notebooks to feature dual-core processor and Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition. Averatec 2300 incorporates AMD Turion 64 X2 CPU. It supports up to 2GB of main memory, has 100GB SATA hard drive spinning at 5400rpm and has a DVD double-layer burner.

There is no information about 2300’s graphics card in today’s press release, but according to the logo at notebook’s product page it features the NVIDIA’s GeForce graphics.

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Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) will announce the Rev G Turion 64 X2 and Mobile Sempron CPU lineups, the company’s first 65nm-made laptop-use processors, in 2007. The Rev G 35W Turions and Rev G 25W Semprons will support DDR2 800Mhz memory and will use Socket S1, Digi Times reported according to the motherboard makers.

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After the recent Intel’s Core 2 Duo Merom processor debut, AMD Turion 64 X2 laptop processors still have pricing, as same sufficient performance, to compete in the 64-bit dual-core notebook market, Digi Times reported.

According to product portfolios offered by laptop vendors, the price of AMD Turion 64 X2-based laptop is about US$150 less than an Intel Core 2 Duo powered notebook. For example, HP offers Pavilion dv6000z, featuring AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-56 CPU (1.80GHz, 2 x 512KB cache, 1600MHz FSB), at a price tag of US$898. The suggested price is US$156 cheaper than an HP Pavilion dv6000t, based on Intel Core 2 Duo CPU (1.83GHz, 2MB cache, 667MHz FSB).

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