AMD officially launches Yukon platform

by Scott Bicheno on 6 January 2009, 14:01

Tags: AMD (NYSE:AMD), Hewlett Packard (NYSE:HPQ)

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We've been hearing about it for a while now and HEXUS brought you an exclusive insight into AMD's new ultrathin notebook platform last month, but now it's official: Yukon has been launched.

Yukon is based on the new Athlon Neo processor - a 65nm part with 1.6 GHz clock, 512 MB L2 cache and a power use of 15 W - and ATI Radeon x1250 integrated graphics with an option to upgrade to HD 3410 discrete graphics.

The platform makes its first appearance in the HP Pavilion dv2 Entertainment Notebook PC. This is a 12.1-inch screen notebook that's 0.93-inches (2.4cm) thick and weighs just under four pounds (~1.8kg).

The Macbook Air, by comparison, is a 13.3-inch display that's 0.76 inches (1.93cm) thick and weighs 3 pounds (1.36kg).

"Before today, there was a compromise associated with selecting a highly portable notebook, forcing consumers to choose either the full PC experience of an ultraportable at a high price or the limited PC experience of a mini notebook at a low price," said Chris Cloran, corporate VP of the client division at AMD.

We'll bring you more specs as we get them. HP has told us that the dv2 won't be available in Europe until 6th April and will cost around €600.

 

UPDATE - 10:00 7th Jan 2009: Here are some images we've just got from HP.

 

 

 



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Hmm, ~£550 for a thin/small laptop with spec similar to an atom…. have i missed something? It has a good gpu for media but thats it, £550 is a bit much tbh.
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Hmm, ~£550 for a thin/small laptop with spec similar to an atom…. have i missed something? It has a good gpu for media but thats it, £550 is a bit much tbh.

I was wondering the same tbh.
I don't think the features of the CPU have been quite as ‘cut back’ as the atoms where however it still doesn't make up for the cost which i agree is too much.
Seems very odd to me they have used a 65nm CPU when they have created a 45nm manufacturing process (apparently a good one at that) which surely would make the chip cheaper and more energy efficient.
Yeh, i was wondering why a 65nm was used and cant figure out one lol. I think the cpu should out perform the atom but its still a cut back, it could well be like the old pentium days where a 1.6 pentium wasnt the same as a 1.6 amd with amd being much better.
This really grinds my gears. Here they are saying they are going to deliver affordable ultra mobile laptops.. and they give up big netbooks. The graphics are certainly better than the intel 950 but coupled to that chip I would think HD is still going to be a bit of a stretch, certainly on the integrated version.

I suppose HP's prices are generally inflated though so I will reserve judgement until someone usefull picks up the chipset. What they should have done is made use of PUMA and given us a 13.3" laptop with an X2, HD3200, blu ray and HDMI out for £500. Then I would be singing their praises :D