AMD continues to answer its archrival Intel with unveiling its new processors. Last week Intel announced eleven CPUs intended to use in mobile computers, including the 2.2GHz Pentium 4-M device (see this news-story), today AMD launched its Mobile Athlon XP 2000+ and 1900+ with PowerNow! technology, proposed for utilising in notebooks and other similar devices.

Both newcomers from AMD are based on the Thoroughbred core and manufactured using advanced copper 0.13 micron technology in Dresden’s Fab30. As all the predecessors, the novelties make use of 266MHz system bus. The new Mobile Athlon XP 1900+ and 2000+ are now available for $345 and $239 respectively in 1000 units quantities.

As usually, AMD declined the prices on the previous Mobile Athlon XP processors with the announcement of the new. Now the mobile Athlon XP 1800+ costs $169, while the Athlon XP 1700+ and 1600+ are priced at $169. The slowest model in the family, the Mobile Athlon XP 1500+ is sold for $150.

The new processors are already used in several notebooks from Hewlett-Packard and Fujitsu Siemens Computers. Packard Bell will also launch a mobile computer based on the Athlon XP 1900+ CPU later this year.