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AMD Set to Announce Netbook Processors Tomorrow at Analyst Conference?
AMD's invited me to its annual Financial Analyst Day at its Sunnyvale headquarters on Thursday, where I expect the company's executives to announce its netbook processor strategy.
AMD: Netbooks? No thanks
AMD: Netbooks? No thanks
news.cnet.com — AMD made it clear that, for now, it is going to pass on Netbooks.... (more) AMD: Netbooks? No thanks
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Nvidia to cut graphics card prices to counter AMD market share gains
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AMD to release Atom killer netbook CPUs tomorrow?
Engadget — Filed under: LaptopsWe've been hearing rumors of AMD's Atom killer CPUs for over a year now. Unfortunately, vapor doesn't help the bottom line -- it does however explain AMD's conspicuous absence from the deluge of netbooks now trumping laptops for shelf-space. AMD's CEO, Dirk Meyer, has promised on a few occasions (as recently as the Q3 earnings call) to unveil "Bobcat" in November. So seeing the chips on display at tomorrow's analyst conference is pretty much a given. Check back then for all the details. AMD to release Atom ...

AMD netbook processor strategy revealed tomorrow
SlashGear — ... Xavier from Notebooks.com has been invited, perhaps a lone reporter among the analysts at tomorrow’s meeting, and will be live-blogging the whole event.  While the PR firms involved wouldn’t disclose exactly the nature of AMD’s announcement, it seems clear that the company will be looking to jump on board the surprisingly successful netbook train. ...

AMD announcing Atom smashing processor tomorrow?
CrunchGear — It’s being wildly speculated this morning that AMD will announce an Intel Atom smasher tomorrow at a financial analyst meeting. So, in short expect AMD to announce their netbook strategy tomorrow, which they said they’d talk about during the Q3 earnings call. The Reg Notebooks

AMD To Announce Netbook Processors?
Asus Eee News, Mods, and Hacks — Prom Notebooks.com - AMD's Dick Meyer has been quoted "We do have strategies together with our OEMs for pushing our solutions both down into smaller form factors and lower notebook price points and we will detail that next month at the Analyst Conference. Yes that is a good question and it is a complicated answer over the phone. We will show at the Analyst Conference pictorially how we think about the notebook market. Clearly the so-called netbook is a new form factor, a new market opportunity and one that we are not participating in right now today." The ...

Netbooks with ARM CPUs could be on the horizon
Liliputing — ... Of course, by then, it might not be a three way processor race between Intel, VIA, and ARM. AMD is expected to announce its plans for the netbook space tomorrow. ...

Will AMD Jump Into The Netbook Fray?
My Asus Eee PC — Will AMD Jump Into The Netbook Fray? According to EeePC.net, it’s AMD’s time to join the netbook market: AMD will be holding a Financial Analyst Day on Thursday and notebooks.com expect that this will be the time that AMD announce they will be entering the netbook component market, producing processors for them. The flourishing netbook market could be just the place for AMD to boost their flagging sales of late and AMD are expected to try their luck and compete with the Intel Atom processors that dominate the netbook component market currently, with most netbook manufacurers ...

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