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Monday, March 3, 2008

Exclusive: AMD's Centrino rival revealed

By David Fearon March 3, 2008

AMD has given PC Pro an exclusive briefing on its "Puma" mobile platform, destined to compete with Intel's Centrino. The new platform - which will be officially unveiled at CeBIT 2008 tomorrow - will be based around a revamped processor design, codenamed Griffin and making its debut in the new 65nm Turion X2 Ultra processor. Its main feature is a triple-powerplane design, allowing each of its two cores and the integrated north bridge to operate at different voltage and frequency for maximum power efficiency. Intel's Core 2 chips can't run with each core at different frequencies.The overall Puma platform is Centrino-like in its structure, consisting of a new 7-series chipset and the new processor. But whereas Intel completes the trio with its own wireless adaptor, AMD is making more of its ATi Mobility Radeon 3400-series graphics. A wireless 802.11g/n adaptor is part of the overall platform but these are provided by one of several third-party manufacturers.

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