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We believe we should see notebooks [based on Ontario and Zacate] in around the $349 range,” said Godfrey Cheng, a director of client technology unit at AMD, in an interview with X-bit labs.

The Ontario and Zacate accelerated processing units belong to the Brazos platform that brings a number of features that so far have not been available at low price-points. According to AMD, the Brazos platform offers a significant amount of advantages compared to Intel Atom, the chip that powers the fast majority of notebooks. Among the most important advantages of Brazos AMD names better micro-architecture, DirectX 11 graphics engine as well as support for general-purpose computing on graphics processing unit.

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