AMD goes after thin-and-light notebooks

Thin-and-light is a category AMD has abdicated to Intel. New processor models will put AMD squarely in the most profitable notebook segment.

However, I doubt AMD's claim that 51% of the notebook market will be thin-and-lights by 2007. There are too many corporate cruisers -- not to mention consumers -- who have much heavier (and sometimes more powerful) notebooks to lug to meetings.

AMD Jumps on Processor Number Bandwagon
Note the new model numbers AMD has chosen, which identify the feature class and relative speed. Looks like AMD is imitating Intel's 2004 switch to the same (applaudable) idea: get rid of gigahertz as the main identifier of processor performance.

Peter S. Kastner