AMD’s Fusion chips have made a little splash in the netbook and notebook markets this year, combining high(ish) performance graphics and low power processors onto a single chip to offer better-than-netbook performance at netbook-like prices. So far we’ve seen 4 different chips, the AMD C-30, C-50, E-240 and E-350. Now Macles reports that a new chip called the AMD C-60…
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The Acer Aspire One 522 is the first netbook to ship in the US with a 10.1 inch display and an AMD C-50 processor with Radeon HD 6250 graphics. If it weren’t for the high resolution 1280 x 720 pixel display, you’d probably have a hard time telling this mini-laptop apart from any other netbook. It’s about the same size,…
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Asus has added two new mini-desktop computers to its Eee Box line. What sets the new EB1020 and EB1021 apart from earlier models though are the AMD Fusion chips. The Eee Box EB1020 features a 1 GHz AMD C-50 dual core processor with AMD Radeon HD 6250 graphics — the same combination powering the Acer Aspire One 522 netbook that’s…
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MSI has been showing off Windows 7 tablets with Intel Atom processors for a few months. In fact, you can pre-order the WindPad 100W with an Intel Atom Z530 processor today for $649 from Excaliber PC. Now it looks like MSI is getting ready to show off a new model which is powered by a low power AMD chip instead…
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AMD recently unveiled a new low power chip called the C-50 for netbooks and laptops. The dual core chip has a TDP of just 9 Watts, which is comparable to the Intel Atom N550, but the C-50 also features high performance ATI Radeon HD graphics on the same chip. Now it looks like AMD is tweaking the chip so that…
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The Acer Aspire One 522 was one of the first netbooks announced to sport a shiny new 1 GHz AMD C-50 dual core chip and AMD Radeon HD 6250 graphics. Now the netbook also has the distinction of becoming the first 10 inch netbook with an AMD Fusion chip to ship in the US. After taking pre-orders for the last…
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AMD interim CEO Thomas Seifert says the company has shipped over a million of its new Fusion chips to partners including Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo, MSI, Samsung, Sony and Toshiba since launching the platform late last year. Those Fusion chips are low power Brazos chips which combine CPU and graphics onto a single chip. We’ve already seen a number…
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The Toshiba NB550D is one of the first netbooks to feature a dual core AMD C-50 Ontario chip with ATI Radeon 6250 graphics. That makes it an interesting test case for AMD’s new competitor to Intel’s Atom chipset, which currently dominates the netbook landscape. Details about the netbook are starting to emerge from Australia and Europe, but if you’ve been…
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When I spoke with AMD recently about the company’s new Brazos chips including the low power AMD Ontario and Zacate processors, the company made it clear that while there was nothing stopping PC makers from using these chips in tablets, they were really designed with low power laptop and desktop computers in mind. While most companies in the PC space…
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There’s still no mention of the new Toshiba NB550D on the company’s US web site. But Toshiba Germany is showing a listing for this new 10 inch mini-laptop with an AMD C-50 Ontario chip, and the folks at PC Authority in Australia have received a demo unit for review. I’ve reached out to my contacts at Toshiba to see if…
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The folks at ePrice have posted some of the first benchmarks of AMD’s new C-30 low power chip. This is a 1.2GHz single core processor with AMD Radeon HD graphics. Honestly, I don’t expect to see many computers ship with the C-30, since AMD is really pushing the C-50 dual core version as more of a direct competitor to Intel’s…
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Over the past week or so we’ve seen plenty of notebooks with 18W AMD Zacate chips announced, but the Acer Aspire One 522 is one of the few new computers to ship with AMD’s lower power 9W Ontario chip. More precisely, it will have a 1GHz dual core AMD C-50 processor with built-in Radeon HD 6250 graphics. And it’s up…
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