Advanced Micro Devices has quietly released a low-voltage chips, the chip has entered a new Acer netbook, forcing chip design to the netbook space.

Single-core AMD Athlon processor is using 64 L110 Gateway LT3103u netbook, which announced earlier this week. This is AMD's first chip to reach netbook, which is a small-screen laptop design basic task such as Internet access and word processing. Gateway is owned by the personal computer maker Acer.

Low-voltage processor is a variant of the new chips, AMD Inc. for thin and light notebook PCs, including a larger screen, and to provide more functionality than the netbook. 64 L110 Athlon chip to run the clock speed of 1.2GHz, with 512KB of cache, and drew about 13 watts of power.

Today the most netbook Intel Atom chips, with VIA's low-power Nano processor in the second place. AMD has been ridiculed in the past netbook said that although low-priced personal computers, but they did not provide full functionality.

Therefore, the sudden appearance of the Athlon chip in the netbook comes as a surprise, especially since AMD has repeatedly said that they would not enter the netbook space. The company still insists on the position of not interested in netbook, but to soften the spokesman said that the remarks.

"AMD has been fully expected our technology will eventually appear in the high-end netbook space," said Steve Howard AMD spokesman. Although the chip is designed for ultra-thin notebook computers, AMD does not want to restrict the aspirations of PC manufacturers to use it in different form factors, he said.

Gateway notebook computer can be defined as a prototype netbook, but better than the integrated graphics found in atoms are usually based netbook. of the United States has a 11.6 inches notebook computer screen and weighing about 3.14 pounds (1.4 kg) and measures about an inch thick. It includes AMD's ATI Radeon x1270 and the RS690 integrated graphics chipset. Notebook computer is designed for the Internet and basic application software such as word processing, Acer America said in a statement.

AMD Company may not intend to use for low-power chips in the Gateway to the netbook, but it nevertheless made the way, Dean McCarron said, Mercury Research principal analyst. Different with Intel, which designed the atom netbook, AMD chip companies do not want to design netbook.

If there is a choice of AMD, it would prefer to chip more expensive notebook computers to extract a better profit margin, McCarron said. Lower profit margins did not help AMD laptop finance the company may be efforts to limit the use of chips in other netbook, he said.

However, the chip can be used for a computer or server in terms of energy efficiency is a concern. For example, Intel's Atom, the server currently in use, so AMD's netbook chip may be, as well as, McAllen said.