The company Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) quietly released a low voltage processor, which was immediately installed by Acer for new netbook that led AMD processors in this growing market.

Antinuclear CPU AMD Athlon 64 L110 used in the production netbook LT3103u Gateway, a subsidiary of Acer. This is the first processor AMD, which hit the market netbook. It is a modification of the processor Neo, AMD designed for thin and light notebook PCs, which have relatively large screens and more functionality than netbook. L110 Athlon 64 processor runs at 1.2GGts has 512Kb cache memory and consumes about 13Vt.

Most netbook now done on the basis of processor Intel Atom, at the second place are processors Via Nano. In the past, AMD netbook ridiculed, saying that, despite their more affordable, because they do not provide full functionality. Therefore, the sudden appearance of netbook on Athlon chip was a surprise, especially after repeated statements by AMD that it is not going to go on the market netbook. The manufacturer continues to treat netbook as a disinterested person, but the official stance eased somewhat.

"We are in AMD were confident that our technology ultimately will be used in netbook the upper segment," ─ said Steve Howard (Steve Howard), the representative of AMD. Despite the fact that the new mobile processor was specially developed for ultrathin laptops, which is for another segment, AMD does not want to limit the desire of producers to create of the processor devices of various form factors.

Netbook Gateway is almost a classic netbook, but with embedded graphics, a higher grade than the timetable netbook processor Atom. LT3103u has a 11.6 "screen and a thickness of about 2.4sm, built ATI Radeon x1270 graphics chipset and RS690. This notebook is designed for the Internet and applications such as word processing. Despite the fact that this netbook are likely to quickly become popular in the U.S. market and other manufacturers may follow the example of Acer, and start producing their own netbook-based AMD, the second largest manufacturer of processors is not going to develop chips for netbook. This is probably done to avoid similar problems with the Intel chip Atom, which prevents the sale of other mobile processors Intel.

This energy-efficient AMD processor can be used not only in laptops but also in small computers and servers, which do not require a great performance. As is known, the Intel Atom processor has been successfully used in notepad and small servers, so that the development of processor Neo can go the same way.

The source said that according to internal documents of the Company AMD, the manufacturer plans to take 15% of global notebook market, most likely with the help of new mobile processors. Platform AMD Tigris next generation is already interested in such manufacturers as Hewlett-Packard (HP), Toshiba, Acer and ASUSTeK Computer. In this year, laptops for this platform will be in Asia, then in North America, Europe, the Middle East, and finally to Africa. Company AMD is not officially commented on this post.