It seems that we will see the first combined AMD/ATI platform on the PC market before the end of the year and as we’ve expected it’s for the portable market. According to DigiTimes, AMD and ATI will launch a new platform based upon AMD’s Turion 64 X2 processors and ATI’s coming chipsets RS690M, RS690DC and RS790M. The code-name of the platform is ‘Yokohama’ and it’s intended for the performance segment of the laptop market. The source also claims that AMD’s goal is to create a “Centrino” platform of their own using its own processors and ATI’s chipsets.
That the new platform is suppose to appear at the end of the year has to be considered a direct threat to Intel’s update of the Napa platform. Whether AMD also plans to counter Intel’s Santa Rosa platform which will appear at the middle of next year is uncertain, but anything else would of course be rather strange.
