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During Thursday’s call to discuss the most recent quarter’s results, AMD’s CEO, Dirk Meyer, said he saw “the notebook market as a big opportunity… because we are relatively under-represented there.” Meyer said the company was doing well in the desktop chip space, with a market share in the “high 20s,” but that AMD’s share in the laptop arena is much lower than that, and efforts were under way to boost those offerings.

The portable PC market is a high-volume segment that presents AMD with an opportunity to ship more chips and be more competitive with Intel, analysts said. AMD gained on Intel in the microprocessor market during the fourth quarter of 2009, iSuppli said in a study released late last month.

AMD accounted for 12.1 percent of global microprocessor shipments, gaining 1.6 percent compared to the same quarter a year ago, and 0.28 percent sequentially. However, Intel held a substantial lead, with 80.6 percent of the global microprocessor market. AMD processors also go into PCs from Hewlett-Packard, Acer, Dell and Toshiba.

AMD has also increased chip shipments by snagging more PC makers as partners, Brookwood said. Lenovo signed up as an AMD partner late last year, and AMD-based ThinkPad laptops are now being pushed to small and medium-sized businesses as a cheaper alternative to Intel-based laptops.

There is also a gradual shift in the consumer space from netbooks to mainstream laptops that is benefitting AMD, said Avi Cohen, managing partner of financial firm Avian Securities, in a research note issued on Friday.

AMD will also likely continue to draw interest as anticipation for the next-generation Fusion platform builds, said Craig Berger, a financial analyst at FBR Capital Markets, in a research note on Friday. The Fusion platform, due in the first half of next year, includes a chip that combines a CPU and graphics processing unit.

The new chips will carry architectural improvements to make laptops faster. AMD in the past has said that Danube processors will increase laptop battery life by up to an hour, while also improving graphics capabilities. The chips, which will ship in dual-core, triple-core and quad-core variants, will also support DDR3 memory.

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AMD announced plans to ship a series of six-core desktop chips during the Cebit exhibition in Germany last month, saying the chips would be available during the second quarter, but held back on details of the chips, including clock speeds and cache size of apple a1148 battery . However, copies of four AMD presentation slides containing details of the chips, dated March 2010 and marked “Confidential — NDA Required,” referring to a non-disclosure agreement, were posted online by tech Web site VR-Zone, and later removed from the site without explanation.

he first three chips — the 1090T, 1055T and 1035T — will run at clock speeds of 3.2GHz, 2.8GHz and 2.6GHz, respectively, according to the slides. In Turbo mode, the chips run even faster than apple powerbook g4 17 inch battery at 3.6GHz, 3.3GHz and 3.1GHz. All of the chips have 9MB of cache and are manufactured using a 45-nanometer process. No information on pricing was given.

The fourth chip, due during the third quarter, is the 1075T, which runs at a clock speed of 3GHz — or 3.5GHz in Turbo mode — and also has 9MB of cache.

Three of the four Phenom II X6 chips — the 1090T, 1075T and 1055T — have a thermal design power (TDP) of 125 watts, suggesting they are designed for high-end PCs, including gaming machines of Dell vostro 1520 battery . The other chip, the 1035T, has a TDP of 95 watts, which matches AMD’s lineup of mainstream desktop chips.

Asked to confirm the specifications, AMD first said they were “not accurate,” but then appeared to back away from that statement when informed of the source of the information.”I think you are referring to leaked information for apple a1080 and a slide which was not published by AMD. Therefore, AMD can not confirm the accuracy of the details you have sent,” wrote Jason Coates, a spokesman for AMD Asia-Pacific, in an e-mail.

Regardless of the exact specifications, users will soon see PCs based on six-core chips like the Phenom II X6 or Intel’s upcoming six-core Gulftown processor on apple macbook pro 13 inch battery . Intel has not given a timeframe for when the Gulftown chips will be available.

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