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AMD's Next-Generation Mobile Platform May 18, 2007 - Sheri Bloor - Permalink

Today in Tokyo Japan AMD announced there next-generation open platform for notebook computing. The platform codenamed "Puma" is designed to deliver enhancements in battery life, graphics and video processing. It is also said to improve overall system performance for a better visual experience.

Puma consists of two new key technologies; AMD's new notebook processor code named "Griffin" and the new AMD "RS780" mobile chip set. Notebooks based on the Puma platform are expected to be available mid-2008.

New features with Griffin include:

- Power optimized HyperTransport™ and memory controllers integrated in the processor silicon that operate on a separate power plane as the processor cores, thereby enabling the cores to go into reduced power states;

- Dynamic performance scaling offers enhanced battery life with reduced power consumption through separate voltage planes enabling each core to operate at independent frequency and voltage; and

- Power-optimized HyperTransport™ 3.0 with a more than tripling of peak I/O bandwidth, plus new power features including dynamic scaling of link widths.

"RS780" technology includes:

- Motherboard DirectX® 10 graphics processing

- Energy efficient high-definition multimedia support with the Unified Video Decoder

- Integrated multi-monitor support with DVI, HDMI and DisplayPort

- Native southbridge support for NAND flash with HyperFlash

- PowerXpress for dynamic switching between integrated and discrete graphics to extend battery life

Puma will be further discussed during a presentation by AMD Fellow, Maurice Steinman at the Spring Microprocessor Forum in San Jose, California on May 22nd. Δ

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