by Jason Mick, Daily Tech
If it can beat Atom+Ion netbooks in cost AMD will have this round in the bag

AMD several years back entered a phase where it was full of big talk, but delivered very little. Then a couple of years ago it began to turn the corner, with its aggressive delivery of the Radeon 4000 series, 5000 series, and 6000 series allowing it to regain the lead in the discrete GPU market.

Now the company looks to follow-up on those successes, unleashing an intriguing new platform the netbook/ultra-mobile market. Intel’s Atom processor has long dominated this segment thanks to its low price Atom processors. Atom’s CPU performance has always been relatively good, but the performance of Intel’s integrated GPUs is pretty abysmal.

AMD’s new low-power platform Brazos goes for the throat, attacking Atom where it’s weakest — graphics. AMD has announced four upcoming models, which are already shipping to OEMs and should pop up in netbooks, notebooks, and other form factors by January/February 2011 at the latest.

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