Acer proclaims new netbooks based on chips from Advanced Micro Devices, succeed for the chip corporation's attempts to grasp market share from competitor Intel.

Acer, the earth's largest netbook dealer, proclaimed two Aspire One netbooks with AMD's Athlon II Neo K125 processors.

The Aspire One AO721 and AO521 come with 11.6-inch and 10.1-inch monitors, respectively, and contain included ATI Radeon HD graphics to display high-definition multimedia content.

Intel's Atom processors go keen on majority netbooks, the small, moveable computers intended for basic Web surfing and productivity applications.

But AMD is raising the bar in presentation with its Neo chips, which, joint with graphics hardware, might process high-definition multimedia that Atom can't.
The AO521 is now below an inch thick, weighs about 2.75 pounds (1.24 kilograms) Acer said.

The AO721 netbook is likewise sized and a little heavier. Those system configurations are accessible in the U.S. and Canada; Acer did not give information regarding how the netbooks, accessible international, might be configured somewhere else.

Neo chips have waiting currently frequently been used in faster-performing and more luxurious ultrathin laptops.

In May AMD launched quicker and extra power-efficient laptop chips, as well as the single-core K125 chip, which functions at a clock speed of 1.7GHz and contains 1MB of cache.

Intel's Atom chips have been disapproving of for incomplete performance and poor graphics capabilities, but the corporation is also looking to get better performance.

It lately proclaimed new DDR3-capable Atom netbook processors and plans to launched a dual-core version of the Atom processor.