Ted Hanigan | 
11 16th, 2008| 
I’m just putting two and two together but it looks like AMD can’t put a processor together to play ball in the Netbook market segment.
Information Week reports:
Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD) on Friday said a low-power mobile platform it plans to deliver in the first quarter of next year will not target the emerging mini-notebook market, also known as netbooks.
Instead, the platform, code-named Yukon, is aimed at the larger ultraportable category, which the company defines as small laptop computers with screens from 11 inches to 13 inches and full-size keyboards, and weighing from 3 to 5 pounds, a spokesman said in an e-mail.
Now I can’t say I’ve looked too deeply into the issues but the news from AMD is sounding like PR speak for “we couldn’t make a chip cheap enough or energy efficient enough for the Netbook market segment.”
Source: Information Week
