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AMD Roadmap for Coming Year and Beyond

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the never-a-good-time-to-buy dept.

nexex writes: "With a new year comes new products, and AMD certainly has some new toys for us to drool over. The first of 2002 will see the release of "Thoroughbred," a version of the Athlon XP chip made on the more advanced 130-nanometer manufacturing process. The chip will cover 80 square millimeters in area, or 65 percent of the space of the "Northwood" Pentium 4 coming from Intel in early January. That chip measures 116 square millimeters, according to AMD estimates. For more, including info on Clawhammer, Sledgehammer, and all the Intel bashing you can handle, see here." I hope they don't really mean that "these new chips will also consume less heat than current AMD notebooks chips."

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  1. Active Cooling by shr · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The AMDs consume heat? Whoa! No more worries of a heat sink and noisy fan. I guess by reducing the amount of heat they consume you don't have to worry about your laptop freezing your lap.
    Intel only manages to produce heat. Wonder how much power the chips consume?

  2. AMD heating issues by searleb · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I hope they don't really mean that "these new chips will also consume less heat than current AMD notebooks chips.

    fear using your AMD notebook to check your e-mail and simultaneously toast your english muffins in the morning.

  3. Heat by Multispin · · Score: 0, Redundant

    They consume less heat?!?! Cool!!