Named Tayler, the AMD new dual-core Turion 64 processor was going to be released in March 9, 2006. The processor is a low wattage processor designed to be used on socket S1 boards. It has twin 256KB L2 caches and supports DDR2-667MHz memory. The first mobile AMD processor to support those memories. Another version of Taylor named Trinidad will have the same specs, but will have twin 512KB L2 caches.

But now it seems that the rumors that stated Tayler will be released only on June are true.

Now that [1] Merom, the Intel processor for the notebook will be launched in August, AMD has to release its processor about the same time frame or even earlier to keep competition alive and also force a price drop.

Till now things have been good for AMD which had like 15.5% notebook market share in Q4 2005 and some say that they increased that number in Q1 2006.