Mobile Palomino, which should come out before the end of H1 2001, according to the latest AMD roadmap, seems to be a very cool alternative for high-performance notebooks. Here is what EBN says about it:

Details of Palomino leaked to EBN describe a chip with a clock rate of 1.3 to 1.4GHz, supported by double-channel PC2100 memory modules with 4.2Gbit/s data rates.

So, if we add here that the heat dissipation and power consumption of the newcomer will be extremely low, considerably lower than by the mobile Intel Pentium III, and its PowerNow! 2.0 technology will allow saving even more of the battery resource, we will get a very promising picture: mobile Palomino turns out capable of beating all the currently available mobile CPUs.
The most interesting thing from EBN’s report is the memory bus bandwidth of 4.2GB/sec. This can be explained by the following:

Although Palomino can be supported by several third-party chipsets, the launch will feature a new Nvidia Corp. integrated north bridge memory controller/graphics processor-the same single-chip design Nvidia is using for the upcoming Microsoft Corp. X-Box electronic game console.

Its true, Crush chipsets from NVIDIA developed for Socket A CPUs feature dual-channel DDR SDRAM controller onboard, which can really provide 4.2GB/sec memory bus bandwidth. It is very probable that Crush chipset will be used in notebooks. Besides the enhanced memory controller, Crush also has a GeForce2 MX based core working with separate memory. And if this feature looked somewhat strange for desktops, then for notebooks it is just the right thing, which explains everything. A combination of Palomino+Crush will allow making very high-performance notebooks with a number of unique features.