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AMD Expects to Claw Back 15% of Notebook Market Share

Posted 06/25/09 at 08:14:25 PM by Pulkit Chandna

AMD hopes it will be able to wrest a sizable chunk of the global notebook market from Intel with the help of its new Tigris notebook platform, which is due out in September. According to a Digitimes report, quoting sources at notebook vendors, the company expects to gain back 15% share of the notebook market. Some of the major notebook vendors, HP, Toshiba, Acer and Asus, are said to have already placed orders for AMD’s upcoming Tigris notebook platform.

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I think that they'll do ok
Submitted by deviouslaw on Sat, 06/27/2009 - 8:11am

I think that they'll do ok with the "go buy the cheapest thing" crowd. Nehalem is going to be expensive, just like desktop nehalem, and 45nm amd parts will be a good budget alternative, just like it is on the desktop.

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I believe AMD was a bit late
Submitted by Pylon on Thu, 06/25/2009 - 6:32pm

I believe AMD was a bit late in updating its mobile line to 45nm. They the problem with Tigris coming out in September is that Nehalem(Arrandale) will show up only 1-3 months later and kick some serious ass over in that place, and AMD has nothing to counter it with. It's similar to what's happening over at the server front, where AMD enjoyed a few months of success there with its 45nm Opterons, until Nehalem showed up. AMD really should've gotten 45nm out to notebooks way sooner, as the current Turions suck compared to Core 2s.

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