AMD Claims Post-Phenom's CPU's are completely Different

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Although most of the attention in the increasingly-competitive CPU market has been focused on Intel and newcomer NVIDIA lately, AMD's still in it to win it, and it looks like it's taking some bold moves. First up, the company says over 100 laptop designs based on the new Puma mobile platform are being developed for delivery in June, over twice as many as it's had in the past. AMD's touting Puma's Hybrid Graphics mode that allows the system to intelligently switch between a Radeon HD3400 and integrated graphics for max power-savings, so it'll be interesting to see how the system stacks up against Intel's Atom and VIA's Isaiah -- like NVIDIA, AMD seems to be betting that consumers care more about graphics than raw horsepower.

That bet might also explain why AMD's technical director of sales and marketing Guiseppe Amato also recently told CustomPC that its next generation of chips will look "completely different" than Phenom, and that it will be capable of solving "problems that today we think can never be addressed by hardware." That's a pretty bold claim -- the whole processor market is getting pretty boastful lately, have you noticed? -- but we're at a loss to explain what it means. Any ideas?

Atleast AMD is trying to make something happen, but will it give it a boost? And I'm not sure why they are giving up on the Phenom architecture so soon, but I guess they do need some 45nm cpus with faster clock speeds We'll see. I hoping to see those new 45nm core or whatevers from AMD later this year.

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[DominiKing]

Yeah they gave that up pretty quick but i guess it's for the best since they had so much trouble with it. maybe with this it'll start getting them back on track

[FuzzyLogik]

...hopefully

[CoffeeShark]

I think we'll be pleased with the advances the Puma platform gives us, very promising stuff.

[VincentVega]

It needs to be different. I cannot believe how they dropped the ball on this. I'm sure it points back to one person/decision. Talk about "unforseen consequences."

That's right, I invoked the GMan.

Phenom is a joke. It's faster than Athlon, but it doesn't matter because the amateur clockspeeds they've so far mustered are negating the fact. They ~need~ something totally different because this thing is a chunk.

[CoffeeShark]

look up the griffin cpu, vega, if you haven't already.

I agree, it needs to be different, better, and cheaper.

[DennyCrane]

Little, yellow, different?