Quote Originally Posted by kuroikenshi View Post
That's exactly right, CULV and netbooks do not compete against each other, they're entirely different market segments with different target products, that's why I didn't understand the previous comment of it being near obsolete even before its release. AMD, a multi-billion dollar company with chief designers and marketing executives of that caliber would never make such an atrocious mistake, making such speculations is fine, but one should always remain objective as to what these (cpus/apus) are...
They are products designed to target specific market segments where engineers design in order to create "a product lineup for each segment". I am not sure if even shareholders would be happy to be briefed that they're investing in colluding obsoleting products.
let me rephrase.llano/SB ULV which will be alot faster than Zacate while boasting a similar max tdp. So all zacate has is a lower price and better battery time in low load situations. (although the difference will not be that significant). If they can sell for each low end notebook a low priced low cost Zacate or a llano (higher cost) but huge profits (same range as ULV intels) they would be crazy to keep Zacate in that sector and loose llano sails (with higher profits). 18W on netbook is rather high, it is ontario that is mainly focussed on netbook and zacate on low power notebook to fill their current gap. Although i would expect that if llano is introduced for the low end they will start lowering the pwr requirements of zacate to scale them down to the upper end of netbook or really low power notebooks. (they just have to keep sure intel does not have lower cost chips for possible ulv notebook market