AMD has begun shipping its “Conesus” as part of a new processor Hewlett-Packard notebook, and a new processor, the Turion Neo.

On Wednesday, HP released a dv2z, users now can be configured with either Athlon or Turion processor Neo Neo. AMD confirmed that, at least in the United States, at this time HP’s exclusive provider of the second processor, according to an AMD spokeswoman.

Neo Athlon first announced in January Ces shows, when the Neo-based dv2 first launched. Dv2 based on the AMD “Yukon” AMD platform that defines as a one-core, 15-watt Athlon Neo, paired with the MS690 chipset, and ATI Radeon 1200 graphics chip, the device according to the slide presentation that AMD recently launched at the Computex show in taiwan.

The “Congo” platform, with the contrast, using a dual-core Athlon Neo – Conesus a chip, also known as Neo Athlon X2 – MS780G paired with a chipset and ATI Radeon 3200 chip. AMD has also included other features, Hyperspace, quick-boot capabilities. AMD does not provide the price to its mobile processors.

Both Congo and the Yukon is designed for the AMD platform is (and Microsoft) call ultrathin notebooks, a step from the low cost netbook platform that has been taken care industry. AMD has essentially ceded the netbook market to Intel, and classified as a system that is based on the Intel Atom microprocessor in the presentation. Both ultrathin notebooks and netbooks to compete with ARM-powered “smartbooks”, although they will not use Windows, Microsoft has said.

Neo the Turion, the contrast, which is positioned as “top stack” processor, seated on the Athlon Neo. Neo is a HP Turion is the part that the 1.6-GHz, the same as the Athlon Neo, available for $ 25 premium. Turion Neo has larger cache size, but, 1 MByte versus 512 Kbytes on Athlon X2 Neo.

Placing Athlon and Turion notebook Neo Neo in the same will not happen often, “We do not limit our customers and enable them to make changes, so that these things sometimes happen,” said a spokeswoman AMD

Source : http://www.pcmag.com