An event today in San Francisco, California, was home to a showcase of next generation mobile platforms from AMD.

Joined by NVIDIA and Broadcom, the topics drawn to focus, included the performance aspects of these next generation platforms in areas such as the latest 3D graphics and battery life, all founded upon AMD's 'Better by Design' initiative.

A fusion of AMD's Turion 64X2 Dual Core system processors, both AMD and NVIDIA chipset solutions, together with wireless network systems from Broadcom, were the basis of the upcoming mobile platforms showcased.

Also highlighted, was the enhanced Windows Vista user experience that these platforms will deliver, together with indications that mobile systems based on the new technologies demonstrated, will be available later in this quarter from computer manufacturers.

AMD's 'Better by Design' initiative, includes ATI Radeon and NVIDIA GeForce Go graphics solutions, together with Atheros, Broadcom, Marvell, Qualcomm and Realtek handling the wireless solutions scope.

In the battery life department, AMD highlighted details of their memory technology, display cache, which, incorporated with AMD's M690 chipset, allows the system CPU to function without accessing system memory, whilst being in a low power mode.

AMD claim that the battery life initiatives above, combined with the improvements achieved through the 65nm design of the AMD Turion 64X2 Dual Core platform, extends battery life to in excess of five hours, that being up to an hour more than the battery life experienced with previous mobile AMD platforms.

Read the press release in full here.