AMD’S LIFTED HIGH SUPPORTED BY 4 GRIFFINS

“Griffin” is a codename for Notebook CPUs which are just a part of the upcoming “Puma” laptop platform. The reveal shows AMD Turion 64, Ultra, and the duo of AMD Turion 64 dual core variants, with 2MB and 1MB of L2 cache respectively. Both the processors support DDR2 800MHz memory and comes with clock speeds ranging from 2GHz to 2.4GHz. Their power consumption scale ranges between 32 Watts and 35 Watts respectively.

There is also an option of a single core Athon 64 chip with 1MB of L2 cache, DDR2 667MHz support, and the speed starting from 1.9GHz, and with a power consumption of 31 Watt.

The future generation of Turion and Athon mobile CPUs are codenamed “Lion”. The AMD Sempron “Sable” is a lower variant of the “Griffin” chip loaded with a single core, 512KB of L2 cache, and a rated power consumption of 25W, and the clock speed starting from 2GHz. The “Griffin” processors are desighned to provide a more advanced power optimization when compared to existing AMD Notebook processors.

Along with the new processing units, the “Puma” platform will deliver the RS780 mobile chipset with the DirectX 10 ready HD3200 integrated graphics and loaded with the Unified Video Decoder. Adding on, the RS780 includes PowerXpress technology for espress switching between integrated and discrete graphics to prolong battery life, as well as PCI Express 2.0 and HyperTransport 3.0 technologies.

AMD has announced that the “Puma”/”Griffin”-powered laptops will be marketed at the end of the second quarter of 2008.