AMD to show upcoming laptop processors

From InfoWorld: Advanced Micro Devices is expected to show off its latest laptop processors on Thursday, including quad-core chips for laptops that are due in a few months.

The chips will include two to four cores and achieve higher levels of integration that could offer longer battery life to laptops, AMD spokesperson Steve Howard said at an event during the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

The chips could be available in laptops in the next few months, Howard said. AMD has already said that the new laptop and ultrathin chips will be available in the first half of 2010.

AMD's chips will be launched as part of the Danube platform for laptops, and Nile platform for ultrathin laptops. The chips will be manufactured using the 45-nanometer process, which helps the company achieve higher levels of integration. The company currently offers processors named Turion, Athlon and Sempron for laptops, some of which are manufactured using the older 65-nm process.

The next-generation laptop processors are designed to add more than an hour of battery life to laptops compared to AMD's available chips, Howard said. Chips in the Nile platform will add up to two hours of battery life to ultrathin laptops, which are lightweight laptops the size of netbooks, but with larger screens and better performance.

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