AMD kills Bobcat

[jones377]

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/...09/22/amd-kills-bobcat

For those who don't know, Bobcat is (was?) the sub 10W CPU developed by AMD in parallell with Bulldozer (described as 10-100W). It would probably fit well in the Netbook market, competing with Atom and Nano there.

 

[OCGuy]

All I know is that PETA is going to be pissed.

 

[Idontcare]

In a related development, AMD announces that some Bulldozer chips will be underclocked and undervolted to the point of fitting under a 10W TDP.

(yes that is a joke, but they could always do it in reality I suppose)

 

[Rubycon]

What about Ditchwitch? :laugh:

Construction names are kind of cool. Excavator sounds good for a security chipset.

 

[Idontcare]

It does hold more potential than geographic features as codenames.

Although it isn't too promising when your codenames entail machinery used to intentionally dig yourself a deeper hole. Maybe the should go back to horse breeds.

 

[Rubycon]

Break a leg! 😉

 

[bryanW1995]

"everest" would be a pretty cool name..."backhoe", not so nice...hmmm, what about "trawl"?

 

[coolpurplefan]

Originally posted by: bryanW1995
"everest" would be a pretty cool name..."backhoe", not so nice...hmmm, what about "trawl"?

I'd like something more along the lines of nincompoop or "Ultimate Jackass" series of processors. Or, Wang Chung, something like that anyway...(or pootytang lol)

 

[FalseChristian]

Very funny posts! LOL!🙂

 

[magreen]

Originally posted by: Idontcare
In a related development, AMD announces that some Bulldozer chips will be underclocked and undervolted to the point of fitting under a 10W TDP.

(yes that is a joke, but they could always do it in reality I suppose)

Yes, and the codename is Trowel.

 

[Idontcare]

Originally posted by: magreen

Originally posted by: Idontcare
In a related development, AMD announces that some Bulldozer chips will be underclocked and undervolted to the point of fitting under a 10W TDP.

(yes that is a joke, but they could always do it in reality I suppose)

Yes, and the codename is Trowel.

Guys! I even scooped FUDzilla on this!...here's a spy-shot of AMD's lead designer hard at work testing out the new sub-10W Bulldozer prototype (its in the lower left corner) rumored to be codenamed Dozer Jr:

http://z.about.com/d/adventure...sKidSandbox400x300.jpg

Check it out!

 

[AmberClad]

So that's AMD's secret tactic to go head to head with Intel's Sandy Bridge :shocked:...genius!

 

[Rubycon]

Jackhammer. 😀

 

[OCGuy]

Originally posted by: Idontcare

Originally posted by: magreen

Originally posted by: Idontcare
In a related development, AMD announces that some Bulldozer chips will be underclocked and undervolted to the point of fitting under a 10W TDP.

(yes that is a joke, but they could always do it in reality I suppose)

Yes, and the codename is Trowel.

Guys! I even scooped FUDzilla on this!...here's a spy-shot of AMD's lead designer hard at work testing out the new sub-10W Bulldozer prototype (its in the lower left corner) rumored to be codenamed Dozer Jr:

http://z.about.com/d/adventure...sKidSandbox400x300.jpg

Check it out!

LOL! Nice one!

What is up with Shanghai? Dont the know the other meaning of that?

I think NV and AMD secretly teamed up for product labeling.

 

[OBLAMA2009]

amd is stupid not to pusue this, net books are gonna be huge. i was at frys yesterday and the got the acer one in. there were more people interested in it that all the other tops combined

 

[Idontcare]

Originally posted by: OBLAMA2009
amd is stupid not to pusue this, net books are gonna be huge. i was at frys yesterday and the got the acer one in. there were more people interested in it that all the other tops combined

I'm not so convinced. The hype machine is definitely going full blast, but this is rather reminiscent of all the prior failed attempts at making sub-laptop consumer devices the next killer hardware.

Cellphones and MP3 players succeeded, laptops scaled down to netbooks (tablet PCs, palm pilots, etc) have been pretty dismal to date.

Until hype and excitement over the "newest kid on the block" turns into volume sales personally I won't be worrying too much about this budding computing segment. I got burned enough on my Tungsten T Palm Pilot, rarely used that $500 gadget and ended up going with a laptop afterwards so I could be fully functional again.

 

[WaitingForNehalem]

AMD didn't kill it.

Proof

 

[KingstonU]

The Xbitlabs article mentioned that Bobcat was originally supposed to be out in 2008? I don't remember that, if only.

 

[OBLAMA2009]

are they really not selling. it may just be that they are still overpriced. i think the reason palms and pdas didnt succeed is that they didnt have full functionality. if i had a netbook i would use it like crazy

 

[myocardia]

Originally posted by: OBLAMA2009
are they really not selling. it may just be that they are still overpriced. i think the reason palms and pdas didnt succeed is that they didnt have full functionality. if i had a netbook i would use it like crazy

They can't keep Asus EEE's and the MSI Wind's on the shelves. And since Asus introduced the models with XP pre-installed, their sales have really taken off.