AMD to take on Intel's Atom with lightweight Fusion chip

I'm glad to here they are finally releasing something to complete with Intel on the ultra low powered platform. It's unfortunate it will be another year until they actually release something.

Targeting early next year? sucks if you want something soon.

Too little, too late -- or in terms of power -- too much, too late.

Its competition, it gives Intel a reason to improve the Atom product line... thats a win-win in my book.

Wow AMD you are quite late for the netbook competition, Intel has been dominated it for quite awhile now, good luck catching up.

Long overdue, needs to be priced well and perform well because of it being so late.

Exactly. They will always be playing catch-up. I can't imagine when, or if, they can ever get ahead of Intel in the chip market.

I'd really like to see this chip be powerful. Give me a netbook with a 2.5 ghz processor and I'd be as happy as a f*g in a d*ck tree.

Finally something to compete against in the netbook arena from amd. I thought they were never going to make something for the netbooks.

I'm looking forward to see if they make some mini-itx boards with this processor like intel did with the atom.

They are ahead in the price/performance ratio. Also the best gaming cpu in my opinion!

People were saying the same thing about nvidia/ATI only a few years ago in the video card market. All it takes is a good generation or two of chips to turn it around. For competition's sake let's hope that this does happen.

I wonder why it took them so long

I'm sure AMD will put some serious competition up for Intel on this.

Exactly - Intel has been treading water with their Atom design as they don't want it to eat into the sales of higher end CPUs. But small low powered computers are a huge part of the future so i want to see these progress as much as possible.

I want next year to come then =(

Dual core netbooks, that is what I want to see!

Sorry, I'm not a big AMD fan so I don't know which Athlon/ATi hardware match up with the following sepcs, but what I want is Pentium 4 performance (say at 2.0 Ghz) with Nvidia GeForce 4 MX GPU capabilities. Make a low power package that matches those performance levels at a fair price and I'll buy. Toss in Windows 7 and a 10"-12" display and that's the perfect little couch machine/road warrior computer for me.

Man AMD has a lot of catch up to do.....

But if they do get caught up competition is nothing but good for us consumers.

This could be a win in the long run for AMD, and for consumers. Yes, they are later in the game than the competition, but that's because they concentrated on their main markets (processors and GPUs) first, then applied their now-solid synergy between AMD and ATi to the mobile marketplace. Catchup, yes. But consider the implications of the package itself: the power of new generation Intel processor (like the Pinetrail platform) with the graphics punch of an Ion2, but without the imposed bottleneck between the systems that is a result of Intel's design choices. A true, fully integrated CPU/GPU platform for mobile applications will provide speed and efficiency boosts. THIS is the kind of thing that the whole AMD acquisition of ATi was aimed at, in the long run.