AMD Athlon XP for Notebooks

Extending its focus on the mobile computing market, AMD, the microprocessor major, has introduced its new Mobile AMD Athlon XP Processor.

The new processor is based on AMD's state-of-the-art 0.13 micron technology featuring AMD PowerNow, power management solution and QuantiSpeed architecture, that offers optimal performance of Windows XP operating system.
The new product is targeted at the notebook manufacturers. This new product has been evolved as a next generation processor incorporating the winning features of both Athlon XP and its earlier mobile processor Athlon 4 processor 1600+.

"Mobile AMD Athlon XP Processor is available in India. But we do not expect the Indian market to show great sales as there are very few notebook manufacturers in the market here. But if there are manufacturers who want to use this new product, it is available for them," said Rahul Singh, Senior Market Specialist, AMD India.

Sharp has already announced notebook PCs in Japan based on this processor, while Compaq has been using Athlon 4 processor 1600+ for it laptops.

The Mobile Athlon XP processors 1400+ and 1500+ are being shipped in the beginning of this quarter. While models 1600+ and 1700+ are expected by later this quarter.

This product is seen in direct competition to Intel's recently launched Mobile Pentium 4. According to some resellers in Delhi, AMD's Athlon processors for desktops have been seeing a good market response due to its pricing and speed, which they claim is nearly 20 times that of Pentium 4.

According to an IDC analyst, the launch of this mobile AMD Athlon XP processors will help AMD consolidate its position in the consumer market and will help thrust it into the mobile computing arena.