Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is all set to launch Puma laptop chip platform at Computex trade show in Taiwan on Wednesday.
It’s a part of AMD’s mobile platform that competes with the Intel Centrino platform in the segment to gain more marketshare.
Since the acquisition of ATI, AMD began to include Mobility Radeon GPUs and AMD chipsets as part of the requirements of the mobile platform, the first of such platforms is the Puma platform.
The Puma platform introduced in 2008 with June 2008 availability for the third-generation AMD mobile platform consists of:
- Processor: Dual-core 64-bit codenamed Griffin family of processors, named “Turion Ultra”, OR Mobile Sempron single-core 64-bit processor (codenamed Sable)
- Wireless: IEEE 802.11 a/b/g/n mini-PCIe Wi-Fi adapter
- Graphics: Mobility Radeon HD 3000 series GPU on 55 nm process
- Chipset: AMD M780 series chipset
Major laptop makers including Acer, Asus, Dell, Fujitsu-Siemens, HP, NEC and Toshiba have already agreed to use it. According to chip analyst Nathan Brookwood of Insight 64:
It’s the first time AMD has really gone out of its way to optimize a product for the mobile environment. The new chip uses less power, and in mobile that means improved battery life and in many cases improved performance. What’s not to like?
The Turion Ultra X2 found in Puma is a dual-core processor to be fabricated on 65 nm technology using 300 mm SOI wafers. It will support DDR2-800 SO-DIMM’s and features a DRAM prefetcher to improve performance and a mobile-enhanced northbridge Each processor core comes with 1 MiB L2 cache for a total of 2 MiB L2 cache for the entire processor. Clock rates will range from 2.0 GHz to 2.4 GHz, and total design power (TDP) will range from 32 watts to 35 watts.
It is the first designed-for-mobile processor that AMD has ever produced.
The Radeon HD 2000/3000 found in Puma is based on GPU codenamed R600. It features unified shaders and is compatible with Direct3D 10.0’s Shader Model 4.0 along with OpenGL 2.0.
Leslie Sobon, AMD’s worldwide director of product marketing said:
The next generation is all about graphics and throughput. Nobody needs to open Word and Excel documents faster, so instead AMD is focusing on speeding up video and video games performance for home users.
In the third quarter AMD plans to roll out Puma with PowerXpress technology that allows toggling between using an integrated graphics chip to save power and a discrete chip for better performance, without rebooting the machine.
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