MAY 18, 2007

AMD has detailed on plans for its first chip platform designed specifically for notebook personal computers.

The platform - a collection of microprocessors, graphics chips and other chips - is aimed at improving battery life and enhancing graphics and video processing performance, AMD said.

Code-named Puma, notebooks with the platform are expected on the market by the middle of 2008, AMD said. The platform also takes advantage of AMD's $US5.4 billion acquisition of graphics chipmaker ATI, which closed in October 2006.

AMD's market share in the first quarter of this year slipped more than 5 percentage points to less than 20 per cent for the first time since 2005 as Intel revamped its own product line and slashed prices on older chips.


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