AMD's Shrike takes flight in the second half of 2009

AMD may not have a shipping product in the emerging MID/netbook market, but the company is taking pains to talk up its own notebook platforms and strategies. Earlier this month, AMD took time to highlight the new capabilities and technologies within its new Puma platform. Now, it's on to Shrike, the next-generation of AMD mobile technology, set to debut in 2009. Shrike will be the first AMD "Fusion" product, and will incorporate the CPU, memory controller, and GPU into a single die. PCIe support is also included, to allow for the use of discrete graphics cards. This may not be of immediate importance, given that Shrike is a laptop platform, but could prove extremely attractive to OEM's building desktops around the new Fusion processors.