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AMD Releases 12 New Chips at CeBIT

Posted by chrisd on from the none-are-nacho-cheese-flavored dept.

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."

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  1. Corporate Rumors by Scoria · · Score: 5, Funny

    Rumor has it that AMD intends to begin advertising a dual-purpose "egg frying" processor shortly.

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  2. AMD Being one up on Intel? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    What about the Centrino processors released last night? 1.6GHz performing equal to that of a 2.6GHz P4? AMD is way behind in the Mobile race. Does anyone know what voltage the XP-M even runs on?

    Kristopher

    1. Re:AMD Being one up on Intel? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      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

  3. "AMD one up..." by inflexion · · Score: 5, Interesting

    AMD isn't "one up" on Intel until these chips are benchmarked and compared side by side with offerings from Intel. Until then, "low-voltage" is just as nonsensical as "centrino".

    1. Re:"AMD one up..." by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Well, "low-voltage" has the obvious advantage of being a word in the English language.

    2. Re:"AMD one up..." by buffer-overflowed · · Score: 5, Informative

      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.

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  4. Hmm... by shayborg · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It would be interesting to see how the low-voltage Athlon XP-M processors compare to the vaunted Centrinos. Seems to be shaping up to be an interesting battle. Still, the categorization is a good move for AMD, I think -- it's a much more intuitive naming convention than the confusion that's doubtless going to be caused by Intel's Pentium 4M/Pentium M/Centrino names.

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  5. Tenuously On-Topic (Just) by fatgav · · Score: 5, Funny

    Forget Barton Core, I want to get hardcore with their Grand Prix Models ;-)

  6. Low voltage chips in a desktop. by MisterP · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I would like to see some of those 1400+ and faster low voltage chips in a desktop machine. I know there are relatively low power alternatives like the VIA C3/EDEN processors and the tualatin-based Celerons, but for some things like games and high-res video, those processors are kind of lacking oomph.

    As a rather frivolous example, with neither mplayer+Quicktime dlls, nor the Quicktime player for Windows, my 1.0 GHz Celeron could not play the 1024x464 trailer of the Matrix Reloaded without dropping every 2nd or 3rd frame. A 1.533GHz (1800XP) Athlon chewed through the Quicktime with mplayer without any problems at all.

    That machine however, uses significantly more power, generates way more heat and requires more noisy cooling gear.

    Those low voltage cpus would be the cats ass for building a small, quiet, cool and still very powerful desktop machine that is a little easier on the power bill. Anything that uses less power is good in my mind.

  7. They had a 13th chip to release... by SensitiveMale · · Score: 5, Funny

    with the code name 'Judas' but they decided to hold that one back for a later show.