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AMD Developing Low Power CPU for Tiny Cheap Laptops

By Matt Buchanan on June 18, 2008 at 9:40 AM

The cheap, low power processor space for stuff like lil’ notebooks is just about the hottest one around, so AMD would be silly to pass it up, especially when it preached the benefits of efficiency long before Intel came around to that school of thought. (Oh, those were the days.) A leaked slide shows AMD might have one up its sleeves–64-bit, 1GHz, and an 8W thermal power design, which puts in more in range of Via’s Nano processors than Intel’s Atom, meaning it’s not quite ultra-ultraportable appropriate. Course, it could be (and very probably is) just one a family, meaning there might be more sprightly versions. [EeePCNews.de via Electronista]


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  • adamnfish
    June 18, 2008 at 2:13 PM

    “Why don’t they concentrate on making desktop processors that can actually compete with intel before trying to our them on the mobile market.”

    Intel started focusing on new mobile-oriented mobile processor architectures a few years back, which is when AMD started to compare favourably in the desktop space. A few years down the line and the R&D they did has filtered up to the desktop chips and blown AMD out of the water.
    It’s no good getting Phenoms that are clocked a bit higher – AMD to take a step back and re-think their approach. Hopefully if they can innovate in the challenging portable market they’ll be able to sort themselves out and rekindle the desktop competition we used to love…

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  • Electric Magnetic
    June 18, 2008 at 10:16 PM

    8W isn’t suitable for the UMPC market unless they are planning on underclocking them, and look what happened on the EeePC701 – everyone clocked them back up to 900mhz and had serious heat issues. I had to mod my EeePC to run comfortably at that clock (and that was the manufactured clock speed).

    Anyway I made a great picture to go with this topic… check this
    http://electricvagabonddownunder.blogspot.com/2008/06/amd-cries-up-and-atom.html

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