AMD's new 45nm dual core processors

[hans007]

Originally posted by: Hacp
Why is AMD wasting time on desktop 45nm products? They should be concecntrating on the notebook market. Thats where all the money is..

uh because people will pay for them?

They might as well make money everywhere, they have 2 fabs and probably plenty of fab capacity.




To be competitive at notebooks, they'd have to get a chip with 25 watt TDP probably. maybe 35 on a desktop replacement.

So a athlon II x2 250 @ 2.2-2.3 ghz, with a lower voltage or something I think could just maybe do it. If they pair it with a 780E chipset thats not a bad notebook at all...

 

[Stoneburner]

Originally posted by: richierich1212
Just got my 550 in today and my "reject" unlocks to quad-core and overclocks a bit more than my 920. Not bad for ~$100 (bing cashback)

Can you provide specific numbers from your chip, your mobo model, and where you got the chip from? I am very curious to try out a 550e

 

[richierich1212]

Um Batch # 0918BPMW, mobo is Biostar TA790GX A2+ Bios 1/13/09, and processor from Tigerdirect. Guys over @ XS got their 550s from Newegg with batch 0921**** and are clocking their quad 550s even higher than me.

 

[waffleironhead]

So, is the regor chip a turion X2, on a desktop socket? The turion x2 already had the 1mb cache per core and no level 3, or is this truly a deneb offshoot? How do we tell?

 

[SickBeast]

Originally posted by: 91TTZ

Originally posted by: Hacp
Why is AMD wasting time on desktop 45nm products? They should be concecntrating on the notebook market. Thats where all the money is..

Notebook and desktop processors are almost the same except for the packaging and binning. The laptop CPU's are in a thinner package and are usually the higher quality dies that use lower power. But it's not like the architecture is completely different.

AMD has released the Athlon Neo which is pretty much a netbook CPU.

Here is a link to a review of an HP laptop that uses it.

I'm sure that there will be notebook variants of these new chips. I have no idea why AMD uses a different socket for them. Perhaps it is Hector Ruiz's fault. :light:

 

[Denithor]

Originally posted by: waffleironhead
So, is the regor chip a turion X2, on a desktop socket? The turion x2 already had the 1mb cache per core and no level 3, or is this truly a deneb offshoot? How do we tell?

You guys need to spend more time on the main site.

There are two different critters here: Phenom II X2 and Athlon II X2. In short - PhII X2 is simply a PhII with two cores deactivated (large L3 cache intact) while AthII X2 is a new design, dual core from the start. PhII X2 you will have some % chance to unlock additional cores, AthII X2 you will not. Read the link above for complete details & benchmarking.