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Work is nearing the beginning of one of the largest IT-exhibitions - Taiwan Computex 2008, which starts at the beginning of next month. One of the more interesting topics to be discussed on a mandatory basis visitors of the exhibition will be the official release of mobile processors AMD Griffin, who are part of the platform Puma - the main competitor for the upcoming Centrino 2 from Intel. If we recall that processors on the market for mobile personal computers today is the unconditional leader Intel, then the success of Puma platform processors in general and in particular depends Griffin of forces in the relevant market segment in the near future. It is therefore once again turn to the basic characteristics Puma.

Introduction of solutions was held in March 2008, but the public has been able to meet only with the characteristics of devices, because the release was “paper”. But on June 3, on the first day of Computex 2008, the company AMD will show the public its decisions “in the gland.” The main components of the platform Puma will become mobile processors Griffin, who will appear on the market under the trademark Turion Ultra, a set of system logic 780G (RS780M), integrated graphics core of Mobility Radeon 3200, as well as adapters wireless data from Wi-Fi Atheros, Broadcom, Marvell or Ralink. The most interesting mind the central processor Griffin, who originally developed as a CPU for notebooks, and does not constitute an optimization “desktop” microchips. The main emphasis was placed on efficiency of integrated circuits - the processor automatically changes the operating frequency and voltage based on workload, while realized regime “deep sleep” when consumption is reduced to virtually zero. In general, Griffin characteristics are as follows: 65 - nm manufacturing process, the working frequency of 2.0 GHz to 2.4 GHz, the system bus Hyper Transport 3.0, 2 MB cache, the second level, the maximum power consumption - from 32 watts up to 35 watts.

Based on Puma mobile platform manufacturers of personal computers are planning to produce a spectrum of notebooks made 12.1 - inch, 13.3 - inch, 15.4 - inch and 17 - inch form factors. In doing so, graphics subsystem will be provided not only an integrated graphics core, but discrete graphics cards and ATI Mobility Radeon 3450, 3650 and 3850. Another interesting question is the attitude of AMD to drive based on flash memory chips, or SSD-drive. According to available information, such devices will be available for the buyer, but as an option, mainly because of their weakness is the high cost, but based Puma planned to produce business notebooks and smartphone consumer solutions, for whom the high price is a significant drawback. But in the next generation of mobile platforms - AMD Shrike - SSD-drives speaking as one of the main components of the system.