AMD Releases 12 New Chips at CeBIT

SuperDuG writes "AMD now offers three categories of processor for notebooks grouped under the Athlon XP-M brand. It labels them "desktop replacement," "standard," and the new "low-voltage". AMD plans to make a desktop replacement in the notebook computer market using the Barton Core, a technology designed to double the CPU Cache. Looks like yet another case of AMD being one-up on Intel."

Comments

Re:AMD Being one up on Intel?

[Anonymous Coward]

Does anyone know what voltage the XP-M even runs on?

It says in the article than the 'low voltage' ones peak at 25 W. (For comparison, the higher-speed Pentium-M chips peak at 24.5W; the ultra-low-voltage Pentium-M chips peak at 7W. Plus they're likely way better at staying below the 'peak' values.)

http://www.anandtech.com/mobile/showdoc.html?i=180 0&p=8

Re:"AMD one up..."

[buffer-overflowed]

And they're both still behind VIA and IBM on both power consumption and heat.

VIA chips have a lot less processing power, but wow can you do some wierd and neat things with them. Multiply the Mhz rating of a C3 by .75 and you get it's pentium equivalent. And they run as cool as a 486 (thereabouts). So they max out at 933Mhz (equal to about a 700Mhz pentium-III), they run air cooled with just a heatsink. That's just great.

We all know how great the powerpc chip is for laptops, anyone who owns a Mac laptop can fill you in far more than I can.

I always thought the "big boys" were more concerned with raw cpu ops/cycle or Mhz than power and heat, at least there's a shift of views in both camps. This can't be anything other than a good thing, otherwise, I predict by 2060 if processors keep getting as hot as they have been, running your PC without a coolermaster "absolute zero cryogenic cooling unit" will cause nucleur fussion to occur inside your case. Hello miniature sun. That would be AMD's model, intel's would just vaporize everything in a wide radius.