Dell featuring first notebooks with AMD’s Phenom II Quad-Core CPUs

Recently, Engadget announced that Dell had launched a new type of notebooks, and now is confirmed that these notebooks will feature the AMD’s first mobile quad-core processors as well as a previously unannounced ATI Mobility Radeon video card – the 550V series.

Intel has had quad-core CPUs for a couple of years already, so we shall see if AMD has used their extra time to develop a better product. According to some from Wikipedia, some of AMD’s mobile quad processors will run at a lower TPD than Intel’s, and this may allow them to be in smaller and thinner notebooks than before.

The addition of quad-core CPUs to AMD’s mobile notebooks will increase the competition with Intel and will hopefully speed up future notebook development, and this will help ensure acceptable prices in the future.

Phenom II Processor Specifications:

Phenom II is a family of AMD’s multi-core 45 nm processors using the AMD K10 microarchitecture, succeeding the original Phenom. The Phenom II X4 operates as the processor component of AMD’s Dragon Platform. The Phenom II triples the shared L3 cache size from 2MB (in the original Phenom line) to 6MB, leading to benchmark performance gains as high as 30%. Certain Phenom II products support AMD’s Turbo Core overclocking performance-boost technology.

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