“AMD has been trying for the past five years to compete in the mobile computing markets against Intel, and unfortunately, only has had moderate luck to date. Their first attempts at a mobile processor were based on their K6-2 processor architecture, which proved quite unpopular in the mobile space due to performance issues. A few years later, AMD’s Mobile AthlonXP architecture hit center stage, but also proved unpopular due to the chip’s heat and power consumption attributes. In the past two years, AMD has gained their greatest amount of success with their latest mobile offering, the Mobile Athlon64 processor.”
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