Acer's new netbook will use chips from Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and a symbol of victory of the chip companies to attract market share from their competitor, Intel.Acer, the world's largest vendor netbook announced two Aspire One netbook with an Athlon processor from AMD II Neo K125, Aspire One AO721 and AO521 with screens 11.6 inches and 10.1 inches, including the ATI Radeon HD graphics to display high-definition multimedia content .
Intel Atom processor has been present in most netbooks, kecilyang portable PCs designed for simple web usage and productivity of a particular application.
However, AMD developed a Neo-chip combined with graphics hardware which can process high-class multimedia and can not be done by Atom.
AO521 have under one inch thick and weighs about 1.24 pounds and prices starting at U.S. $ 349.99 (USD 3.2 million), said the Acer.
AO721 netbook has a similar size, but a bit heavier starting at U.S. $ 429.99 (USD 3.9 million). System configuration that has been present in the U.S. and Canada, but Acer does not mention any information on this netbook comes in around the world.
Chip on Intel's Atom has been criticized because of limited strength and poor graphics capabilities. But this company has been looking for ways to develop the chip performance.
Recently, Intel announced new Atom netbook processor and DDR3 is also planned dualcore version of the Atom processor.
AMD has been working with PC manufacturers to offer systems that use their chips, said Roger Kay, president of Endpoint Technologies Associates.
Last month, AMD said that PC manufacturers will be launching more than 135 new laptops based on their chips this year, major vendors such as Hewlett-Packard and Lenovo has started offering PCs based on AMD chips in large numbers.
AMD is also making progress in making chips smaller sufficient, but more power efficient. Intel launches chip next year for a thin laptop with integrated CPU and graphics processing units in one unity.
