AMD Tigris platform promises low cost and longer battery life.
AMD is working hard to gain some market share away from Intel in the CPU world. The company announced this week that it would be unveiling a new
Vision marketing system to help shoppers better identify what the computer has inside and what it can do for them.
AMD is also talking a bit about its next notebook platform codenamed
Tigris. The Tigris platform will use processors that fit in the Turion II X2 family and Athlon lines providing performance and needing less power. The less juice the CPU needs to operate at full capacity, the longer the battery life of the notebook will be.
Above: MSI C-series Notebook with Tigris
AMD reports that Tigris is aimed at mainstream notebooks and is the first update since the Puma platform launched last year. The Tigris platform is expected to be widely adopted by computer makers with big names like MSI, HP, Acer, and Toshiba expected to produce laptops using Tigris.
The Tigris platform will feature dual-core Turion II X2 processors with speeds of 2.2GHz to 2.6GHz and consumer 35 watts of power max. The platform will sport an M880 chipset and have an ATI GPU to speed multimedia tasks and help with gaming. Perhaps the biggest feature of the Tigris platform when compared to similar Intel platforms will be price. AMD is expected to put significant price pressure on Intel with the new platform.