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AMD Starts Shipping Mobile Durons

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the the-immobile-ones-were-immobile dept.

HiyaPower writes: "AMD announced today that it has started shipment of its mobile Duron line of processors. While these were supposed to have made it out the gate in 00Q4, it is nice to see that they have finally appeared. Designed around a 1.6V VCore, these processors have a power dissipation of roughly 25W at 600 Mhz, and 29W at 700 Mhz according to the tech specs. Pricing is aggressive as might be expected in this environment. The AMD mobile line has been a good one since the K6-III+ processors. Hopefully, these Durons will live up to the tradition." I bet this release is a spur to the folks at both Intel and Transmeta -- isn't it nice to watch one-upmanship at work sometimes?

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  1. Power supply by blacksmith · · Score: 4

    The article is wrong - the mobile devices don't run at 1.6v. If you look at this page from AMD it's 1.4v. Assuming this is the same core rather than the upcoming Morgan core, then the power consumption should just be scaled down by the square of the suppy voltage. 21 W for the 600 MHz and 24 W for the 700 MHz, based on the power consumptions for the desktop versions.

  2. Power comparison. by Matt2000 · · Score: 5


    I'm an AMD fan (and they're hot, so they can use all they can get, HAH! ouch) so I'm glad to see AMD finally getting going on the high end laptop market. For comparison to the 25W and 29W power consumption, here's some Intel mobile power consumption data:

    Original Mobile Celeron 266: 5.8 W
    Mobile Pentium III @ 650 Mhz 7.9 - 14 W depending on load (speedstep technology)

    And previously from AMD:
    Mobile K6-II @ 400 mhz: 12 Watts
    Mobile K6-III @ 450? mhz: avg. 12 watts probably more.

    So again, AMD comes out heavy on the power usage, and probably heat. Unfortunately my Pentium II laptop is already heating my groin area too much when I'm working with it on my lap, don't need another 20 W of power getting transmitted down there.

    It's just common sense.

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  3. Mobile Durons? by jd · · Score: 5
    Wouldn't it make it difficult to keep them in the computer? And what would you feed them?

    I suppose you -could- always add a hamster wheel in there, to keep them amused.

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