AMD to ship dual-core Neo, Istanbul this quarter

21.04.2009
Chip maker Advanced Micro Devices on Tuesday said it would ship new laptop and server processors later this quarter, which should up the ante in its competition with rival chip maker Intel.

AMD will ship new dual-core Athlon Neo processors for ultrathin laptops and Istanbul chips for servers to system builders toward the end of the second quarter, AMD executives said on an earnings conference call Tuesday. The chips will appear in systems early in the following quarter.

The dual-core Neo chip is an update of the single-core Neo chip that AMD launched in January at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.