If your head ’s spinning from the buckets of chip splooge that ’s shoot out over the past couple day , we do n’t blame you . There ’s been a Modern mobile chip launched or announced by every major player in the biz ( Intel , AMD , Nvidia and Via ) , so no wonder it ’s all gluey and running together . Do n’t worry , here ’s a agile guide to what matters , who wee it , and what form of stuff you ’ll see it in .
Intel
Like it or not , Intel ’s the big player in the plot , so they ’ve got essentially two major entries for Mobile River . First up is Montevina , soon to beknown to your mother as Centrino 2 . It was supposed to launch this month , butwas delayeduntil August for a full rollout . It ’s a “ chopine ” for notebooks , so it ’s get a few different component part , like a Penryn Core 2 Duo processor and a wireless module ( two options , one flavor has WiMax ) . It ’s essentially nimbler all around than the preceding Santa Rosa political platform - speedier front - side bus , quicker RAM , better integrated computer graphic - but solid accent on electric battery life story too . It ’ll essentially be in any of the full - sized notebooks worth buying after this summer , and probably in the next MacBook / MacBook Pro spill .
https://gizmodo.com/intel-santa-rosa-successor-montevina-knighted-as-cen-357498
The ballyhooedAtom chipsactually enshroud two category of devices : so send for “ mobile internet machine ” ‘ ( a dim category between a smartphone and a lilliputian laptop ) and budget , smaller notebooks ( “ netbooks , ” “ mini - notebooks,”whatever you wish ) , include theEee PC 901and MSI ’s twist , with chipsrunning from 800MHz to 1.86GHz , and an average power use of 160 to 220mW. As Jon at Ars summate up in hisnitty gritty coverage , it ’s not quite “ there ” yet , but it ’s just a foot in the door for Intel .
https://gizmodo.com/subnotebook-vs-umpc-vs-netbook-wtf-is-the-difference-394094
AMD
I ’ve been feel so bad for AMD lately . Hopefully , itsjust - launch peregrine platform , Puma , will help start turning thing around . Its CPU soul is a Turion X2 Ultra , which has the nifty feature of adjust index levels on the tent-fly for each sum . Another acquire view is the integrated Radeon 3000 nontextual matter , which AMD conceive all pwns Intel ’s , with three prison term the 3D performance and five meter the HD quality ( possibly something useful came out of the AMD / ATI amalgamation after all ? ) Also , it can flip between using incorporated and distinct graphics to spare succus or ramp up performance . Tom ’s Hardwareisn’t too hot on it , though .
https://gizmodo.com/amds-puma-platform-officially-pounces-but-can-it-pwn-5012966
Nvidia
Nvidia is a comparative noob in the mobile platform space , withTegrabeing its first material charge . It ’s a system on a Saratoga chip , with memory , a graphics C.P.U. , a CPU ( from ARM ) and more on a undivided chip . While they reference Intel ’s Atom a whole bunch , it ’s not really a competitor - these are just for more of those peregrine internet equipment . No strong products expend it yet , either , but here aresome videosdepicting what Nvidia ’s got in mind . Neat , but I ’m not sure who ’s gon na buy ’em . Also , new9 M notebook computer graphics cards - dissipated than the 8 M series that ’s in becoming notebooks now , we mayyyy see ’em in newfangled MacBook Pros in August ( crosses finger’s breadth ) .
https://gizmodo.com/nvidia-tegra-all-in-one-mobile-processors-aim-to-nuke-i-5012159
Via
Via’sNano processorfollows up the C7 used in stuff like the OQO UMPC and Cloudbook . It ’s mo ’ hefty , but it also habituate more juice than the C7or Intel ’s Atom . So , as Ars points out , it does n’t quite compete with Atom , just cause of the superpower derived function . That ’s nerveless though , since Via ’s planning on using the Nano to break into powering bigger , badder notebooks that ’ll do HD TV , and the C7 is n’t going anywhere . You might see it substitute the C7 in some poppycock though , like HP ’s miniskirt - note , since physically it ’ll gibe anywhere the C7 did .
https://gizmodo.com/via-launches-crysis-capable-nano-processors-393879
That should bring ya up to stop number .
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