AMD keeps going…and going…and going. Just like a certain rabbit, they seem bent on producing new chip lines as fast as they can. The obvious winner is the consumer, who gets a wider choice. And more choice is always better.

In this case, the new chips will be very welcome, since they’re essentially Athlon64 mobile chips. They have all the speed-throttling and power saving that AMD is well known for plus the power to run upcoming OS’es. Windows XP x64 will be out next month and AMD is currently the only game in town when it comes to 64-bit laptop computing.

Advanced Micro Devices plans to release its Turion processor for notebooks on Thursday, the first stage in an effort to recover ground lost in laptops in recent years to Intel.

The Turion is essentially an energy-efficient version of AMD’s Athlon 64 chips for desktops. Turions generally run at slower speeds than their desktop counterparts and contain dedicated circuitry that allows them to slow themselves dynamically to throttle power consumption.

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