Toshiba launched the first laptop with AMD Puma chip

Toshiba has introduced the first laptop to integrate AMD's Puma mobile chip platform. The company's representative said new Satellite laptops with integrated Turion X2 Ultra ZM chips will be available later this year.

The Turion X2 Ultra is part of the Puma platform introduced by AMD on June 3. The chip is divided into two speeds: the ZM-80 runs at 2.1GHz, 2MB cache; while Turion X2 Ultra ZM-86 runs at 2.4GHz, 2MB cache.

Along with Turion Ultra ZM, Toshiba also knows that two other AMD chips, Athlon Dual Core QL and Turion Dual Core RM, will also be integrated for laptop products: Satellite P300D, Satellite A300D, Satellite M300D, Satellite U400D, Satellite L300D and Satellite L350D.

Also at the Puma launch on June 3, AMD said it had reached an agreement to design laptop platforms with PC makers such as Acer, Asus, Fujitsu, HP, NEC and Toshiba. About one-third of these laptop designs are 15-inch screens; the rest are from 12-inch to 18-inch.

Puma laptops are designed to run on Windows Vista platforms.

The Puma platform also includes the AMD 7-series mobile chipset, and the ATI Radeon HD 3000 Series graphics card. The Puma platform supports hybrid graphics technology to increase overall performance by running on both integrated graphics chips and separate graphics cards.