Tokyo — AMD said its next generation platform for notebooks, codenamed “Puma,” will deliver improved battery life, graphics and video processing enhancements over the just-launched M690 mobile chipset Turion 64 X2 dual-core mobile technologies.
“Puma”-based systems, expected on the market in the middle of next year, will include a new notebook processor, codenamed “Griffin,” and a new RS780 mobile chipset with integrated technologies from AMD’s acquisition of ATI.
New notebook processing innovations in “Griffin” CPUs will include:
–power-optimized HyperTransport and memory controllers integrated in the processor silicon that operate on a separate power plane as the processor cores, thereby enabling the cores to go into reduced power states;
–dynamic performance scaling offers enhanced battery life with reduced power consumption through separate voltage planes enabling each core to operate at independent frequency and voltage; and
–power-optimized HyperTransport 3.0, said to more than triple peak I/O bandwidth, plus new power features including dynamic scaling of link widths.
The RS780 notebook chipset will be based on PCI Express Generation 2 and include Motherboard DirectX 10 graphics processing, energy efficient high-definition multimedia support with the Unified Video Decoder, integrated multi-monitor support with DVI, HDMI and DisplayPort, native southbridge support for NAND flash with HyperFlash and PowerXpress for dynamic switching between integrated and discrete graphics to extend battery life.
