{"id":41251,"date":"2012-01-13T09:56:10","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T07:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=41251"},"modified":"2012-01-13T09:57:49","modified_gmt":"2012-01-13T07:57:49","slug":"amd-readies-ultrabook-competitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/41251-amd-readies-ultrabook-competitor.html","title":{"rendered":"AMD readies Ultrabook competitor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In presentations at CES 2012, <a title=\"AMD\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/219302-AMD\">AMD<\/a> has been showcasing laptops based on its upcoming processor, Trinity.<\/p>\n<p>AMD is hoping that Trinity will power a new wave of thin, powerful, portable notebooks capable of taking on Intel powered Ultrabooks, and has creatively named the new devices \u201cUltrathins\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>AMD wants Ultrathins to retail for as little as $500 (R4,028.50), substantially undercutting <a title=\"Intel\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/307489-Intel\">Intel\u2019s<\/a> offerings which begin at an $800 (R6,445.58) price point. Intel hopes to reduce the starting price point to $700 (R5,639.88) by the end of 2012.<\/p>\n<p>The Trinity chip will comprise of a CPU and a GPU. The CPU will be based on a second generation Bulldozer core, codenamed piledriver; while the GPU will be based on AMD\u2019s Southern Islands architecture, which debuted in the Radeon HD7970 in late 2011.<\/p>\n<p>There will be two lines of Trinity chips. One will be a low power chip with a 17w TDP for Ultrathins, and a high power 35w TDP for standard laptops.<\/p>\n<p>AMD did not reveal a release date for the Trinity chips.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story at: <a title=\"Ars Technica News site\" href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/news\/2012\/01\/amd-aiming-to-undercut-ultrabooks-with-500-trinity-ultrathins.ars\" target=\"_blank\">Ars Technica<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ultrabooks may soon have competition from AMD powered Ultrathins<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":32546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[577,8101,131,2754,8099],"class_list":["post-41251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-amd","tag-amd-trinity","tag-intel","tag-ultrabook","tag-ultrathin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41251"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41253,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41251\/revisions\/41253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}