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AMD's netbook platform imminent

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AMD Atom smasher due today

Who said Charlie can't write a good article? Oh yeah, as long as he doesn't get to vent his hatred of anything NVIDIA...

CLIFFS:
- CPU better performance than Atom
- CPU draws more power than Atom
- chipset draws less power than 945GC
- chipset outperforms 945GC
- As a platform, should be roughly equal to Atom for power draw (I'll believe it when I see it, as AMD traditionally has lagged behind)
- As a platform, should outperform Atom
- No platform limitations*

This should make netbooks more interesting and diversified whether or not it meets AMD's claims.

*Intel seems to have tight controls over what kind of configurations manufacturers can put the Atom chip into. This is strictly so that the Atom doesn't compete against other Intel products.
 
not sure if this is related, but:

"1H 2009 - Yukon platform, ultra portable and mini notebook space, sub-25W TDPs. These won't be Atom competitors, they should be higher performance but also higher power consumption. These things will be targeted at netbooks and low end notebooks."

thats the only thing that i read that was closest to the inq link, but according to the anandtech article, it consumes too much to compete with the atom http://www.anandtech.com/cpuch...howdoc.aspx?i=3457&p=2

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then again i also found this: http://www.extremetech.com/art...=ETRSS02129TX1K0000532

"For mini-notebook and netbook enthusiasts, the key additions are "Caspian" and "Conesus," both 45-nm cores apparently built on the same architecture as the "Shanghai" processor AMD introduced on Thursday and its desktop counterpart, Deneb, which will be launched early in 2009, at the Consumer Electronics Show in January, according to a leaked roadmap. That roadmap did not identify either Caspian or Conesus by name; speculation had been that the two would be based on the Geode processor. Randy Allen, the senior vice president of AMD's Computation Solutions Group who identified the new cores here, did not specify whether the two new chips are indeed Geodes.

In any event, both cores mean that AMD now has an answer to the Atom processor that AMD's chief rival has used to power netbooks."

 
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